Articles Quote by Rachel Hartman

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

— James Siegel

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

— Catharine Beecher

“Origin of the Logical. Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally have been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

— Dani Shapiro

It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

— Francis Collins

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said to myself, "the nowledge of faith arises from…

— Leo Tolstoy

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Logic, also, is founded upon suppositions to which nothing in the actual world corresponds,—for instance, on the supposition of the equality of things, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not…

— John Assaraf