#logic

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#before #concerned #function #his #logic

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view. ↗

— Joe Namath

#football #i #logical #point #point of view

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#another #easily #heart #hearts #hope

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#career #far #get #going #logic

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#fruit #great #logical #logical thing #passion

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#because #every #everything #god #great