The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.
The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
