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• Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Decision, World, Limits

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• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

  Maria Montessori

  Beauty, Science, Imagination

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

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• Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Independent, Literature

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• Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

  John Dewey

  Men, History, Intellectual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.61, SIU Press

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• Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Argument, Epithet, Insolence

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1647, Library of Alexandria

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• But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Mathematics

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• I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Thinking, Toxic Waste

  "Furor on Memo At World Bank". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1992.

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• The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Passion, Justice

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.3488, Delphi Classics

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• Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Care, Wheels

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics

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• Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

  Gregory Bateson

  Often Is, Doe, Causes

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• Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

  Steven Bochco

  Beautiful, Emotional, Brain

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• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  Tadao Ando

  Two, Use, Spirit

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• It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  May, Problem, Economy

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• The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Reality, Yield, Should

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• The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Math, Mind, Doe

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• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  A. N. Wilson

  Math, Insatiable Hunger, Awakening

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Attributed to Niels Bohr in William Glen "The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis" (p. 62), 1994.

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• The logic of the heart is absurd

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Sweet Love, Heart, Absurd

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• Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

  Stendhal

  Art, Science, Dodge

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• Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Break Through, Coercion

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  Samuel Butler

  Reason, Enough, Conclusion

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Powerful, Psychology, Public Life

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• Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

  Gregory Bateson

  Causes, Poor, Cause And Effect

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

  Hilary Putnam

  Writing, Thinking, Mathematical Logic

  "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.

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