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"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
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"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
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"Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination." »Nathan Campbell
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"logic is in the eye of the logician." »Gloria Steinem
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The life of the law has not been logic but experience." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." »Doctor Who
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it." »Eric Hoffer
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"logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.
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"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted." »Blaise Pascal
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"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." »Philip Robinson
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"If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic." »David Russell
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"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
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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon
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"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
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"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission." »La Rochefoucauld
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"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
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"The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the logic, of the High Intelligence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself." »Joseph Farrell
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"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I 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 Line
And "Up-and-down" by logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine." »from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
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"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
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"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
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