Illogical Quotes
104 quotes by 92 authors
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
— Octavia Butler
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their…
— Benjamin Carson
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has…
— H. L. Mencken
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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
— Mark Twain
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when…
— Stephen King
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
— Mark Twain
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is…
— Rajneesh
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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling film. They’d shoot…
— Wally Pfister
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Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
— Jason Schwartzman
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical…
— Lyn Hejinian
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It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she…
— Hilton Hotema
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of…
— Chinua Achebe
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Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext…
— Thelonious Monk
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Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
— LL Cool J
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Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
— Alex Kozinski
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