Logic Against Logic Quotes

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Pure common sense cannot accept the proposition that God.

— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, A Message of Peace

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Wise is the man who can see that there is a madness in all claims by reason to have found an absolute truth.

— Michel Foucault, History of Madness

Logic Against Logic There Is No Truth The Only Truth Is The Lack of Truth

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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1) (Vols 1&2)

Why We Reason Logic Against Logic Truth Is Not What Matters Meaning Is Existential (Not Logical)

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One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.

— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

Logic Against Logic Epistemology Limits of Knowledge The Seduction of Unreason

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Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

— John Nash, Les Prix Nobel 1994

Logic Against Logic Limits Cosmos The Space Outside Understanding

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But we are not authoritative in questions of fact. Like every other kind of judgment that we make, our judgments about what seems green and what is green cannot be tested by a jury of angels: human jurors are the only ones we have.

— John Hyman, The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

Logic Against Logic Who Judges?

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My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, with immoral means and for immoral ends; how, on the other hand, everything decried as immoral is, economically considered, higher and more essential, and how a development toward a greater fullness of life necessarily also demands the advance of immorality. 'Truth' the extent to which we permit ourselves to understand this fact.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

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There is no wisdom, only many wisdoms— beautiful and delusional.

— David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life

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Total explicitness is impossible. The effort of formal logic to make thought entirely explicit, while an admirable and in many ways indispensable and fantastically productive effort, is ultimately doomed to failure and entails deep psychological strain because of its unreality. Thought can only be made more and more explicit, never totally so.

— Walter Ong, Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

Logic Against Logic Against Objectivity Open Closure

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Objects can’t be presented directly because they are not inert but parts of a process, and the relations between things are important than the things themselves.

— Jacob Korg, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D

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Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

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My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.

— Andrew Pickering, e Mangle of Practice: Time,Agency,and Science,The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

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In Schmitt’s view, all thought, which does not recognize that order is created out of disorder and that rationality is based on an 'irrational' foundation, is itself irrational.

— Mika Ojakangas, A Philosophy of Concrete Life: Carl Schmitt and the Political Thought of Late Modernity

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Who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?

— Adora Svitak, What Adults Can Learn From Kids

Pure common sense cannot accept the proposition that God.

— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, A Message of Peace

Wise is the man who can see that there is a madness in all claims by reason to have found an absolute truth.

— Michel Foucault, History of Madness

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1) (Vols 1&2)

One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.

— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

— John Nash, Les Prix Nobel 1994

But we are not authoritative in questions of fact. Like every other kind of judgment that we make, our judgments about what seems green and what is green cannot be tested by a jury of angels: human jurors are the only ones we have.

— John Hyman, The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

There is no wisdom, only many wisdoms— beautiful and delusional.

— David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life

— Walter Ong, Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

Objects can’t be presented directly because they are not inert but parts of a process, and the relations between things are important than the things themselves.

— Jacob Korg, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D

Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.

— Andrew Pickering, e Mangle of Practice: Time,Agency,and Science,The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

In Schmitt’s view, all thought, which does not recognize that order is created out of disorder and that rationality is based on an 'irrational' foundation, is itself irrational.

— Mika Ojakangas, A Philosophy of Concrete Life: Carl Schmitt and the Political Thought of Late Modernity