184 quotes found
“It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
“The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.”
“The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could hardly be seen as victories for Christ. They are stories in which the final pain of a fatal d...”
“It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can't look that far back.' He got up from his desk and went over to...”
“We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma,...”
“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the in...”
“In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was...”
“Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?""You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her”
“The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them th...”
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your f...”
“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
“Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.”
“Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer tyre, and we see what that has led to. The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. Before ...”
“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of ...”
“There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.”
“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
“But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold”
“There's a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.”
“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no childr...”
“Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together”
