"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Logic, Emotion, Thinking

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"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Logic, Impossibility, Truth, Reality

"Reason is also choice."

John Milton, English Poet

Logic, Reason, Choice, Decision

"The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition."

Eva Figes, British Writer

Logic, Race

"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."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

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"Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Every why hath a wherefore."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Logic, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Power

"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Logic, Philosophy, Meaning, Analysis

"Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do."

Sam Harris, American Author

Logic, Belief, Choice, Reason

"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Logic, Thought, Mind, Reason

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"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."

"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

"Reason is also choice."

"The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition."

"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."

"Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!"

"Every why hath a wherefore."

"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."

"Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do."

"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."

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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."