184 quotes found
“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”
“Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.”
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. Wh...”
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
“The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.”
“When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All ...”
“We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.”
“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical....”
“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think of the terms: we think identity, for example, by thinking one...”
“*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra property and calling it one merely denies that it is divided. Simple things are neither divided nor ...”
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.”
“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.”
“the squeeky wheel gets the grease.”
“For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they wil...”
“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.”
“Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.”
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration...”
“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and...”
