logic on Reason

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness li...

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am ...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.