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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Jeanne DuPrau
    “The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.”
    ― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember
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    Tom Robbins
    “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll, logic
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    Clive James
    “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
    ― Clive James
    tags: logic, psychology, science
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    Douglas Adams
    “Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
    tags: logic
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    Albert Camus
    “There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: crime, logic, passion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
    tags: animal, animal-rights, enemies, eugenics, logic
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    Albert Camus
    “It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Douglas Adams
    “The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: logic
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    Lord Byron
    “I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    René Descartes
    “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
    ― Rene Descartes
    tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science
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    René Descartes
    “And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
    ― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
    tags: logic, rationality, truth, wisdom
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  • #15
    “What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”
    ― John Nash
    tags: life, logic, love, reason
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    Peter Kreeft
    “We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
    ― Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
    tags: apologetics, logic, philosophy, reason
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    Samuel Butler
    “Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”
    ― Samuel Butler
    tags: logic, rationalism, sword
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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  • #22
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome
    tags: humor, work
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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  • #28
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Charles Dickens
    “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice
    3073 likes



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