#logical

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#briefly #defined #faith #illogical #improbable

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#faith #gut-feeling #illogical #intuition #faith

Convince and enemy, convince him that he's wrong, is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long. A simple act of faith, is reason over might, To blow up his children would only prove him right. ↗

— Gordon "Sting" Sumner

#diplomacy #logical-thinking #pacifist #faith

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can. ↗

— Gloria Mallette

#books #family #marriage #psychological-suspense #family

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#family

I look at it logically. We need four wins. We're one step closer. ↗

— Brady Anderson

#four #i #logically #look #need

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill. ↗

— Justin Bog

#literary-fiction #mystery #psychological-suspense #suspense #family

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. ↗

— Toby Hemenway

#food-security #gardening #organic #permaculture #provision

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #inspirational #philosophy-of-life #psychological #humor