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• Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Psychological Disorders, Play

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Mean, Law

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.

  Susan Lindauer

  Crush, Thinking, Government

  "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.

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• Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  Arnold Gehlen

  Art, Consistency, Style

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• The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Mediation, Aim

  John C. H. Wu, Jingxiong Wu, Thomas Merton, Kenneth Kraft (2003). “The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Tradition

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.550, Penguin

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• We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

  Michael Polanyi

  Believe, Dwelling, Looks

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Path, Distraction

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• The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

  Richard Halliburton

  Vagabonds, World, Life Is

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• Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

  W. D. Richter

  Misunderstood, Way, Midst

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• Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Math, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Kay Ogden (1998). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  Edward Kasner

  Home, Order, Interesting

  "Mathematics and the Imagination".

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• By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

  Francis Collins

  Religious, Scientific Method, Claims

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• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

  Iwan Bloch

  Vices, Principles, Example

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• If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

  George Soros

  Meaning Of Life, Doe, Investing

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.363, John Wiley & Sons

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• I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Girl, Looks, Letters

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• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Substitutes

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Past, Track

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• Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

  Nelson DeMille

  Anxiety, Abiding, Floating

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