In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the…

“The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy.”

— Dean Barnlund

“The world's most elusive criminal is the government.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking,…

— Josiah Royce

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other…

— Anonymous

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the…

— Leon Trotsky

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or…

— Criss Jami

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

— Paul Samuelson

Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

— F. A. Harper

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I…

— Lawrence Summers

“What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.”

— Fela Durotoye

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and…

— Dale Carnegie

If we were to expect the unexpected, then the unexpected would become expected, so we might as well say expect the expected, but then…

— Anonymous

Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of…

— David Oderberg