Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic…

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

— Tom Robbins

“Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.”

— Tom Robbins

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

— Holly Black

“She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was…

— Tom Robbins

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to…

— R. A. Salvatore

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