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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."
"It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself."
"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
"The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love."
"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."
"Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!"
"Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things."
"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
"An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time."
"Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain."
"Fear is the enemy of logic."
"The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it"
"There can never be surprises in logic."
"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
"The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches."
"Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror."
"Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
