Fallacy Quote by M.F. Moonzajer Download Open image “We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.” — M.F. Moonzajer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fallacy Inspired Logic Motivated
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic… — Herb Cohen Copy Share Image
The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Logic is what the way things are. Reasons are the twisted things we come up with in order to deal with it. — Elias Atienza Copy Share Image
Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency. — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“When I look at you; I feel that God must have created you for himself.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“If you sought to leave the world, don’t go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Love is not about liking, loving and caring, but appreciation, understanding and devotion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets… — Washington Irving Copy Share
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image