Logic quotes
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"Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'."
"The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers."
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
"Logic is one thing and commonsense another."
"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
"What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified."
"Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought."
"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
"A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic."
"Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?"
"He is a true fugitive who flies from reason."
"In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic."
"It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland."
"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
"You have to play the logic of a character."
"The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being."
"I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion."
