In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Tahir ShahTags: travel logic rules culture india
[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.
Irving M. CopiTags: democracy logic citizenship
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Thomas JeffersonTags: reason democracy logic citizenship
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Josh BillingsTags: truth obvious logic obviousness logical-thinking
Persistence wears down resistance.
William J. FedererTags: logic resistance persistance conquer logical-thinking persist resist
In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle, with no straight edges to look for and no end in sight, but one in which there was always going to be somewhere for absolutely any piece to fit.
Iain BanksHe had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.
Julian BarnesTags: logic common-sense logical-thinking
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
Douglas AdamsTags: humor civilization logic h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy wonko-the-sane
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
Sam HarrisTags: paradox honesty reason logic value importance evidence
Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart
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