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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
-Ambrose Bierce
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
-Sir Thomas Browne
Religio Medici, 1643
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Logic is like the sword
-Samuel Butler
Notebooks
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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
-Mason Cooley
City Aphorisms, New York (1984)
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
-Bernard Devoto
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
-Lord Dunsany
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
-Euripides
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
-Eva Figes
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Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her niece of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. 'Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!' she exclaimed. 'How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?' Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was pass
-E. M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel (from Chapter V: The Plot), 1927
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
-Andre Gide
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
-Frank Herbert
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
-Joseph Joubert
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
-John Locke
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Reason also is choice.
-John Milton
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
-A. N. Wilson
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Notebooks 1914-1916, October 13, 1914
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Books about Logic
