“Logic - was a tool in his intellectual armoury but it was not a cold, calculating logic. There was space in it for something beyond the algebraic piling of reason upon reason.”
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9th Vice President and the 10th President of India 1920–2005Related quotes

“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”
Source: The Angel Experiment

“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

“The crime is now logical and reasonable.”
Murder for Christmas (1939, Holiday for Murder, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas)
“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)