A Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin
American - Novelist
October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018

As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.

Max Horkheimer

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Jon Franklin

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Henry Flynt

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Albert Camus

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

Barbara De Angelis

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

Rae Foley

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Dodie Smith

Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.

Bill Maher

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

Tom Lehrer

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

Kevin Powers

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

Jimmy Lai

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

Charlie Munger

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

David Foster Wallace

You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

Mos Def

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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