A Quote by Louis D. Brandeis
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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Politics is about realities, not logic.
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