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    Christian Nestell Bovee
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    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.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 1:21-23, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 22:37-40, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-21
    [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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    Mark Batterson
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    Neuroimaging has shown that as we age, our cognitive center of gravity shifts from the imaginative right brain to the logical left brain. At some point, most of us top living out of imagination and st...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    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 ...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    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...

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    David Foster Wallace
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    There was a basic logical paradox that I called the 'fraudulence paradox' that I had discovered more or less on my own while taking a mathematical logic course in school...The fraudulence para...

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    Bono
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    Luke 2:6-7, Zechariah 9:9, 1 Corinthians 13:13
    The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same lo...

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    We will often stop at nothing to avoid cognitive dissonance. We will twist logic, bend reason, conveniently forget facts, invent new stories, even destroy relationships—all in the name of preserving o...

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    Robert Frost
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    We need the interruption of the night To ease attention off when overtight, To break out logic in too long a flight, And ask us if our premises are right.

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    Frank Tipler
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    When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the centr...

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    Wendell Berry
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    Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. Acc...

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    Malcolm Gladwell
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    People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all themselves. But in fact they are invariably the benefici...

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    Daniel Bourguet
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    One of the great misunderstandings about prayer and its fulfillment comes from the tendency to pray without taking sufficient account of Jesus and his teaching. “If my words abide in you, ask . . . .”...

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    Ken Albala and Trudy Eden
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    The act of ingestion and digestion involves the incorporation of food into our own flesh. What we eat literally becomes us, and we become it. Logically, therefore, food is among the most powerful expre...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Most emphatically the Psalms must be read as poems; as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric p...

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    Watchman Nee
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    Romans 8:, John 14:15-18, John 14:23, Acts 1:8, John 16:13, Mark 13:11, Luke 21:14-15, Luke 12:11-12, Matthew 10:19-20, 1 John 4:1
    The indwelling Spirit shall teach him what is of God and what is not. This is why sometimes we can conjure up no logical reason for opposing a certain teaching, yet in the very depth of our being aris...

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    Napoleon Hill
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    Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to...

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    Gordon Olson
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    Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registere...

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    Joseph Alexander Leighton
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    Science ... is organized common sense.

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    Michio Kaku
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    I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan w...

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    Lauren Migliore
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    Dissonance theory predicts that we will eventually (and conveniently) forget good arguments made by opponents just as we forget silly arguments we made ourselves. . . . It’s motivated by our need to b...

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally,...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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    Thomas Jefferson
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    State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these ru...

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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    George Orwell
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    We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is pos...

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    John Dewey
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    I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

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    Daniel Kahneman
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    Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these...
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