Raoul Berger Quotes

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

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

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

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

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

Logic has made me hated in the world.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

Philosophy is easier than politics.

By free-thinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

[Logic and philosophy] were of no use, in the church or the state, in the cloister or the court, in peace or war, at home or abroad or anywhere but in the schools

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.