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“If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Selbstverständlich kann diese Oeuvre wie jede andere Konklusion an seinem Fundament, den einzelnen Morphemen und in allerlei Hinsicht der Sprache attackiert werden. Sobald wir ein Argument als valide deklarieren, kann die Rechtmäßigkeit nur noch durch die Falschheit der Prämissen kollabieren. Rechtmäßigkeit kann immer durch eine Divergenz im Verständnis einzelner Definitionen angezweifelt werden. Die Definitionen, die wir bestimmten Schlüsselwörter geben, machen meist den Unterschied zwischen verschiedenen Weltanschauungen.”
― Navin F. Proff, Telosismus: Genesis und Vollendung des Menschen

“The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply, but the mind drags in a filthy association. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Not everything illogical is superstition,
Not everything logical aids civilization.
Facts and fiction both have a place,
in civilizing the world for human race.
To know their place, first you gotta be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“It's no use looking for logical solutions when you are dealing with illogical people.”
― Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus

“Do not try to apply reason and logic to the unreasonable and illogical.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“People's perception of someone's guilt or innocence is almost always proportional to their view of the heinousness of the crime, not the likelihood of actual guilt.”
― Frank Hood

“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“It is the plurality of effects that we mistake for that of causes.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“Science is our reliable guide in life”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Intolerance is the enemy, not illogicality. Argumentation without empathy is just hate speech. If someone is doing no harm, then who the hell are you to take away their fantasy! On occasion, healthy fantasy does indeed turn into harmful superstition - at that point it is the duty of every conscientious human to stand up to such superstition. Until then, keep your judgment to yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“The problem is not that we believe in a lot of weird stuff, the problem is that often we end up confusing our belief with reality. Keep your belief if you need, no matter how illogical it is, but always be observant of your belief. Be the believer as well as the observer of the believer. In your mind be a child as well as the guardian of the child. Allow yourself some fantasy if it's not doing any harm, but never let it run amok.

Let me put it to you another way - a little bit of fantasy actually enhances your mental faculties. Which means, just like there is such a thing as too much fantasy, there is also such a thing as too much logic. Apply logic where logic is needed, permit fantasy where fantasy does good. Learn to be flexible, learn to be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Bravery without benevolence is imbecility, Reason without affection is yet more rigidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized animal, despite being the epitome of sentimentality. What this means is that, only with the right balance between rationality and sentimentality there can exist a magical creature called human, brimming with infinite potential - but mess up the balance, and you are stuck with either a cold mechanical world run by rationality or a red-hot uncivilized world run by brutality - both equally unfit for preserving civilized life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan HimalayanoÄŸlu: It's Time to Defect

“Intellect is supposed to enhance our humanity, not undermine it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Faith is losing oneself through the myth of logic.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“In the absence of love all logic is treason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Do you think someone who uses a coloured umbrella or a transparent umbrella is a sensible person? Of course, the second one, because he sees what's in front of him more easily! Logic makes your life easier!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Emotion is usually the reason, logic is often the excuse.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“En ausencia de amor toda lógica es traición.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Logic is the most powerful tool against the delusion and the ignorant. A lie detector is the truth, and a delusion detector is logic.”
― Zahir Oran

“In essence, use logic to guide your actions, but don't neglect the emotional undercurrents that drive people's behavior.”
― Damian Mingle

“Even the logician's tools may break if you lean too hard on them.”
― Wilfrid Hodges, Logic: An Introduction to Elementary Logic

“Give time sometime To work (even Clock needs time to show Time)”
― Ankith Reddy

“Contrary to the standard caricature of philosophers as inveterate skeptics who have no truck with religion, among philosophers the view that the existence of God can be rationally demonstrated “enjoyed wide currency, if not hegemony . . . from classical antiquity until well after the dawn of modernityâ€� (to quote the philosopher David Conway, writing in a book that had a major influence on Flew’s conversion to philosophical theism); and the suggestion that human reason can be accounted for in purely materialistic terms has, historically speaking, been regarded by most philosophers as a logical absurdity, a demonstrable falsehood.”
― Edward Feser, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

“The possibility of the existence of such a thing as "science" rests on a variety of presuppositions that neither can themselves be subjected to a "scientific" examination, nor do they provide any rational basis for giving said "science" the authority of the last word not only on general questions of human existence, but even in the specialized field of each particular scientific area. Just to give an basic example, without the words "yes" and "no", logical reasoning is not possible. No science can tell us what they mean. All formal logic is based on these two words, and formal logic itself cannot define them.”
― Olavo de Carvalho, O Mínimo que Você Precisa Saber Para Não Ser um Idiota

“Logic cannot deny absolute truth without denying itself”
― Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

“The materialistic atheist can’t have laws of logic. He believes that everything that exists is material—part of the physical world. But laws of logic are not physical. You can’t stub your toe on a law of logic. Laws of logic cannot exist in the atheist’s world, yet he uses them to try to reason. This is inconsistent. [...] The atheist’s view cannot be rational because he uses things (laws of logic) that cannot exist according to his profession. The debate over the existence of God is a bit like a debate over the existence of air.3 Can you imagine someone arguing that air doesn’t actually exist? He would offer seemingly excellent “proofsâ€� against the existence of air, while simultaneously breathing air and expecting that we can hear his words as the sound is transmitted through the air. In order for us to hear and understand his claim, it would have to be wrong. Likewise, the atheist, in arguing that God does not exist must use laws of logic that only make sense if God does exist. In order for his argument to make sense, it would have to be wrong.”
― Greg L Bahnsen