“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.”
A remarkable life-story
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
K. R. Narayanan40
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.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
Source: Dreams of a Final Theory
“The crime is now logical and reasonable.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
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.”
Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book I, Chapter 1, p. 41
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist