Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.
