They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear lo...
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More t...
The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent upon an end-point over which we have n...
[scoffs as Rose's paintings are being unpacked] Cal Hockley: God, not those finger paintings again. They certainly were a waste of money. Rose: The difference between Cal's taste in art and mine is that I have some. They're fascinating. It's like bei...
There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for a much more general stratagem that underlies almost all regulative processes or proces...
Reality has a way of bursting the bubble of illusion, and an affair is one of the biggest illusions that anyone can experience in life. It’s based almost entirely on emotions with almost no logic to support it. That fact becomes clear when children...
Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add two more, the total will be six. That is logic. But behind this logic, there are underlying assumptions. Now, if somebody tells you, there are fo...
The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.
Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.
The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
