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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. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. – Don DeLillo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. – Joseph Schumpeter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts. – Martin Tobias Lithner	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination. – Nathan Campbell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion. – Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. – Rosenstock-Huessy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. – Doctor Who	added by anonymous 13 years ago
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century. – F.W. Lawvere	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters. – Honore de Balzac	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine. – from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window. – Stephen King	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The life of the law has not been logic but experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. – Isaac Bashevis Singer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. – Frank Herbert, Dune	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. – Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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