“The crime is now logical and reasonable.”
Murder for Christmas (1939, Holiday for Murder, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas)
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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976Related quotes

“Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.”
1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”
Source: Dreams of a Final Theory

A remarkable life-story
“The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”
Book I, Chapter 1, p. 41
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“Doth logic in the lily hide,
And where's the reason in the rose?”
The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Rome", XLI, line 11; p. 116.

“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”