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• Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Myopic, Term

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• Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Two, Mind, Different

  "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 2, p. 97, 1953.

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• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Art, Passion, Mathematical Equations

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

  Unknown

  Mind, World, Quran

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• Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

  David Brooks

  Art, Commitment, People

  David Brooks (2015). “The Road to Character”, p.109, Random House

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• Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

  Richard Serra

  Axes, Perception, Sculpture

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• You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

  Shane Claiborne

  Laughing, Details, Stories

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• Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

  Tryon Edwards

  Prejudice, Overcoming, Argument

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books

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• It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

  Gordon Livingston

  Ideas, Firsts, Difficult

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.12, Da Capo Press

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• Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Truth Is

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• Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Radicalism, Desperation

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• Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mind, Religion, Mysterious

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Travels in the East: Including a Journey in the Holy Land”, p.171

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• Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Magic, Shapes

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

  Elayne Boosler

  Sports, Blood, America

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• Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Failing, Impulse, All The Best

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

  Bertrand Russell

  Architecture, Mathematics, Structure

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.95, Bertrand Russell

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• The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

  Louise Bogan

  Hair, Intuition, Fiction

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

  Neil Armstrong

  Use, Deceived, Conclusion

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• what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Character, Artist

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Men, Two, Justice

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• Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

  Rae Foley

  Depressing, People, Mazes

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• There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Heart

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• Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

  Penelope Lively

  Messages, Stuff, Form

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• I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Sound, Leading Me

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