#log

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#human-condition #humanity #individuality #uniqueness #perception

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#thought

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#biology #id #intelligent-design #optimisation #optimization

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#logic #mind #logic

My opinions,” I say to him, quietly this time, “should not so easily break your own. Stand by your convictions. Form clear and logical arguments. Even if I disagree. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#warner #logic

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. ↗

— Albert Camus

#logic #passion #crime

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humanity #people #logic

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#truth-telling #writing #logic

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon ↗

— L.J. Smith

#damon #elena #fiction #romance #vampire

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#carroll #logic #logic