Source: The Postman (1985), Section 2, “Cyclops”, Chapter 4, “Harrisburg” (p. 126)
Source: The Society of Mind (1987), p. 187
Context: For generations, scientists and philosophers have tried to explain ordinary reasoning in terms of logical principles — with virtually no success. I suspect this enterprise failed because it was looking in the wrong direction: common sense works so well not because it is an approximation of logic; logic is only a small part of our great accumulation of different, useful ways to chain things together.
Source: The Geller Phenomenon (1976), pp. 34-35
Context: The weakness of the attack lies in its lack of discrimination. It is possible that psychic surgery is a hoax, that plants cannot really read our minds, that Kirlian photography (photographing the "life-aura" of living creatures) may depend on some simple electrical phenomenon. But to lump all of these together as if they were all on the same level of improbability shows a certain lack of discernment. The same applies to the list of "hoaxes." Rhine's careful research into extrasensory perception at Duke University is generally conceded to be serious and sincere, even by people who think his test conditions were too loose. The famous fairy photographs are quite probably a hoax, but no one has ever produced an atom of proof either way, and until someone does, no one can be quite as confident as the editors of Time seem to be. And Ted Serios has never at any time been exposed as a fraud — although obviously he might be. We see here a phenomena that we shall encounter again in relation to Geller: that when a scientist or a "rationalist" sets himself up as the defender of reason, he often treats logic with a disrespect that makes one wonder what side he is on.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Six, Liberating Knowledge: News from the Frontiers of Science
Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 39 and p. 383, Princeton University Press, 1981.
Muqaddimah (1377)
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 158.
“There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about.”
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 39 (p. 400)
“Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants.”
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
“He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.”
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 447)
"Leonard Nimoy's Confessions About His Emotions", TV And Movie Play magazine (1967)
“Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.”
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
