“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.” IfsGivingMindAcceptingWillingLogicConclusionFormalValidityTimidityHocus Pocus Author:Carl L. Becker
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept” MenMindWellsBookIdeasAcceptingInfluenceSpeechNotion Book:Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas Source: Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
