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Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers Quotes: Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
         

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.


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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

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Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.



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We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.





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