#logic

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

— William Butler Yeats

#best #best part #end #exposition #lean

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#church #nihilism #philosophy #theology #logic

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#meditation #philosophy #teddy #logic

Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do. ↗

— Brigid Lowry

#ideas #logic #why-we-do #logic

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#pointless #suicide #logic

Love is natural, no logical reason to accept or reject it ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#logical #love #life

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#logic #love #romance #love

Love is like a unicorn with a rainbow for a horn. What I mean is it’s rare, and you’re lucky if you see it once, or at the most twice, in a given week.
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #luck #lucky #mythical #mythological

My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#psychological-thriller #ya #thriller