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    There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

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    The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

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    There is no logic to grief.

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    There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

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    There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

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    There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

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    There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

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    There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

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    The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

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    There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

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    The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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    The solution of every problem is another problem

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    The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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    These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

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    The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

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    The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

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    The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

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    The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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    The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.

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    The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

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    They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

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    The will of man is by his reason swayed.

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    This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

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    The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

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    This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

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    Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

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    Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

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    They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

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    Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

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    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.

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    To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

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    Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

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    Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

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    Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

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    We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

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    To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

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    We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

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    We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

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    Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

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    We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

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    What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

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    What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

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    Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

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    We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic

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    When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the distinction between natural law and revealed truth. Most of the philosophers of church and state expected that what was going to be advocated as the law of the land would be related to natural law. If you attempted to draw lines about certain general moral truths that were derivative of logic and reason, they would prove to be widely shared, and therefore suitable to be enacted into law on both the civic and religious sides.

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    When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

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    When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me.

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    When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

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    When you try to translate any kind of real-life problem into a neat logical form, you're almost always simplifying it. We need a kind of blend - we need to use not just tools of logic, which are important and valuable - I'm not denying that, but also tools of judgement, and of inductive and abductive reasoning which can also inform.

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    When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.