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Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
* Samuel Butler
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
* Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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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.
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
* André Gide
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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
* Luigi Pirandello
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
* Rabindranath Tagore
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
* A. N. Wilson
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