I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. – Sir Thomas Browne

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. – Euripides

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Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by

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