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"We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand."
"It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own."
"We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't."
"Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature."
"Whatever you can, count."
"I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification."
"In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness."
"You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic."
"Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth."
"All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies."
"Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach."
"If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic."
"There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics."
"Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking."
"Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear."
"[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed."
"Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances."
"Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish."
"The real universe is always one step beyond logic."
"Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand."
