Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

The logic of the heart is absurd.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

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.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

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

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

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

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.