Isaac Watts Quotes

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Logic has made me hated in the world.