Quotes about Logic

But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.

All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same.

Man is a reasoning animal.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Man's reason never follows the redemption route.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)

My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.