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• There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

  A. J. Jacobs

  Powerful, Unconditional Love, Love Is

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

  T.I.

  Winning, Insanity, Use

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• Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Theory, Meaningless

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• This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Ideas, Mourning, Development

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• No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Together, Verbs, Nouns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  History, Records, Stories

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Doe

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• I have just created something totally illogical.

  Ray Kinsella

  Field Of Dreams

  "Fictional character: Ray Kinsella". "Field of Dreams", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Trying, Strange

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Saint maybe”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Fall, Love Is, Stuck

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• Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Horse, Motivation

  Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.

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• It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.

  Hilton Hotema

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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• People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Common Sense, Demand

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Views, Names

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Religious, Ignorance, Government

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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Procrastination, Men

  "There Is A Way Out!". Book by Vernon Howard, 1975.

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• The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Passion

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• To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.

  William James

  Spiritual, Religious, Feelings

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

  Christopher McDougall

  Spring, Common Sense, Psychology

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• It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

  Chester Himes

  Gun, Men, Civilization

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• Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is basically illogical. Prose has to be clear-cut; poetry has to be vague - that's its beauty, its quality. Prose simply says what it says; poetry says many things. Prose is needed in the day-to-day world, in the marketplace. But whenever something of the heart has to be said, prose is always found inadequate - one has to fall back to poetry.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Heart, Cutting

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• Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Thinking, Mind

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• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Religious, Truth

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