Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
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And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead
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I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope..
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The logic of the heart is absurd
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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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.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one
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The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.
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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the old philosophical fights and arguments.
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A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term philosopher.
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In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic
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