“His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Turn Coat
“His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Dietzgen (1828–1888) german philosopher
Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
“[N]othing is too terrible to be true if it is consistent with the laws of nature [...].”
David Pearce (philosopher) (1959) British transhumanist
" The Pinprick Argument https://www.utilitarianism.com/pinprick-argument.html", BLTC Research, 2005
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Summa Contra Gentiles, III,130,3
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
Joseph Conrad book Chance
Source: Chance (1913) part II, Ch. 5
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“The world is a terrible place, but it’s very interesting.”
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) Novelist
1970s-, The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
“Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.”
Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana
Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 77)