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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"I call him free who is led solely by reason"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Like everything metaphysical, the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it"
Mary Astell, Writer
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them"
David Hume, Philosopher
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger"
David Hume, Philosopher
"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain"
David Hume, Philosopher
"Right reason is stronger than force"
James A. Garfield, President
"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible"
Sean O'Casey, Playwright
"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all"
John W. Gardner, Educator
"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"If I don't know, I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know, I know, I think I don't know"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by nor for the human intellect"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed"
Horace Greeley, Editor
"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity"
Edgar Allan Poe, Poet
"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking"
Wallace Stevens, Poet
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance"
Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist
"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it"
Shelley Duvall, Actress
"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process"
Jean Piaget, Psychologist
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737"
Sydney Smith, Clergyman
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat"
John Morley, Statesman
"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental"
Robert Anton Wilson, Writer
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself"
Doris Lessing, Writer
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in"
Galileo Galilei, Scientist
"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man"
George Berkeley, Philosopher
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