This isn’t a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don’t overdose

We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.

I’m expecting a miracle. Don’t taint it with logic.

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure...

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

When somebody comes with a conclusion, then he looks through that conclusion and chooses only things which support his position.Logic is a prostitute.It can help anybody – for or against, it has no problem.

Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called ‘Someday’. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often...

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um… What? River: Bible’s broken. Contradictions, false logistics – doesn’t make sense. Shepherd Book: No, no. You-you-you can’t… River: So we’ll...

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

anything that i dont know from everthing i know is just nothing but something not unusual . the most simple reality on the whole wide Universe .

What feminists refer to as microaggressions, the rest of us sane adults call life….The concept of microaggressions encourages women to think that every single thing in the world is, or should be, about them. It...

Wonder, like life, ignores logic.

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

If it doesn’t make sense, it’s usually not true.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape,...

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

God clues us in to the fact that, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” In short, God is not...

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one...

Magic gives him what he wants.

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise...

Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The...

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya kwanza watu wanavyoviona na kuvisoma. Watu wakivutiwa na jina la kitabu, au mwandishi;...

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of ‘common hatred”.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was...

A theist can’t empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God’s existence. By his logic, you must believe in anything you can’t disprove. That means all...

When you say, ‘I don’t know,’ you cannot then draw a conclusion. That’s faulty logic.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater...

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

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

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

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that...

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go...

Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in...

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can...

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.