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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Contrariwise, 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.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.