Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.”
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”
“The clothes have no emperor.”
“How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.”
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry ...”
“I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.”
“It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.”
“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”