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"If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art."
"It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs."
"Instinct leads, logic does but follow."
"His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency."
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
"Analogy is even slipperier than logic."
"Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase."
"Everything has to come to an end, sometime."
"It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought."
"A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture."
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned."
"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed."
"In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture)."
"Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps."
"Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul."
"To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface."
"Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related."
"Does fuzzy logic tickle?"
