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“On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.”

Book:The Lady Hellion

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“So... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?" Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?”

Logic

Book:Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?" "The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.”

Reason Games Logic Circular Reasoning Circular Logic

Book:Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.”

Thinking Life Mind Reason Philosophy Wisdom Truth Values Existence Virtue Morality Logic Rational Man Morals Think Pursuit Of Happiness Objectivism Atlas Shrugged John Galt

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.”

Logic Limits Of Logic Post Positivist

Author:Umberto Eco

“For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him.”

Art Artist Creation Logic Relief Relieved Therapeutic Fantasies

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.”

Mind Intellectual Logic Sufism Sufis Sociology

Book:Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

“Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.”

Reality Logic Myth Mythology Meaning

Book:Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

Source: Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

“There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.”

Men Argument Logic Logical Weapon Argue

Book:Marriage by Arrangement

Source: Marriage by Arrangement

“It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.”

Philosophy Argument Logic Philosophy Quotes Fallacy

Author:Jerry A. Fodor

“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve--and do serve, in ways that they don't know--has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.”

God America United States Usa Us

Book:If Beale Street Could Talk

Source: If Beale Street Could Talk

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