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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jason Schwartzman

"Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?"

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"Logic plus logic equals the illogical" lands like a deadpan magic trick: you watch two clean, reasonable steps get combined and somehow the result is a rabbit, not a proof. Schwartzman’s phrasing is deliberately faux-mathematical, borrowing the authority of an equation to confess its opposite. That’s the joke and the tell. He’s pointing at a familiar modern experience: you can stack rational choices - optimize the career, optimize the relationship, optimize the body, optimize the brand - and still end up in a life that feels strangely unlivable. The culture sells logic as a solvent for mess; Schwartzman’s line insists mess has its own physics.

The tag, "Do you know what I mean?" is where the quote quietly sharpens. It’s not seeking clarification; it’s recruiting complicity. The speaker pretends to be unsure, but the real move is intimacy: a wink to anyone who’s watched arguments become performance, or plans become anxiety, or advice metastasize into paralysis. In an actor’s mouth, it also reads as a bit of character work: the charmingly self-aware guy who intellectualizes feelings until the feelings revolt, then tries to laugh his way back into connection.

Contextually, Schwartzman’s public persona often trades on a nervous, articulate sincerity - the person who can narrate his own confusion in real time. The quote captures that tone: humor as a coping strategy, and a small critique of a world that treats "being reasonable" as a moral identity even when it produces unreasonable outcomes.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Schwartzman, Jason. (2026, January 15). Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/logic-plus-logic-equals-the-illogical-do-you-know-163939/

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Schwartzman, Jason. "Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/logic-plus-logic-equals-the-illogical-do-you-know-163939/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/logic-plus-logic-equals-the-illogical-do-you-know-163939/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jason Schwartzman (born June 26, 1980) is a Actor from USA.

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