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logic 1. "philosophy, logic" A branch of philosophy and mathematics that deals with the formal principles, methods and criteria of validity of {inference}, reasoning and {knowledge}. Logic is concerned with what is true and how we can know whether something is true. This involves the formalisation of logical arguments and {proofs} in terms of symbols representing {propositions} and {logical connectives}. The meanings of these logical connectives are expressed by a set of rules which are assumed to be self-evident. {Boolean algebra} deals with the basic operations of truth values: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. {Predicate logic} extends this with existential and universal {quantifiers} and symbols standing for {predicates} which may depend on variables. The rules of {natural deduction} describe how we may proceed from valid premises to valid conclusions, where the premises and conclusions are expressions in {predicate logic}. Symbolic logic uses a {meta-language} concerned with truth, which may or may not have a corresponding expression in the world of objects called existance. In symbolic logic, arguments and {proofs} are made in terms of symbols representing {propositions} and {logical connectives}. The meanings of these begin with a set of rules or {primitives} which are assumed to be self-evident. Fortunately, even from vague primitives, functions can be defined with precise meaning. {Boolean logic} deals with the basic operations of {truth values}: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. {Predicate logic} extends this with {existential quantifiers} and {universal quantifiers} which introduce {bound variables} ranging over {finite} sets; the {predicate} itself takes on only the values true and false. Deduction describes how we may proceed from valid {premises} to valid conclusions, where these are expressions in {predicate logic}. Carnap used the phrase "rational reconstruction" to describe the logical analysis of thought. Thus logic is less concerned with how thought does proceed, which is considered the realm of psychology, and more with how it should proceed to discover truth. It is the touchstone of the results of thinking, but neither its regulator nor a motive for its practice. See also fuzzy logic, logic programming, arithmetic and logic unit, first-order logic, See also {Boolean logic}, {fuzzy logic}, {logic programming}, {first-order logic}, {logic bomb}, {combinatory logic}, {higher-order logic}, {intuitionistic logic}, {equational logic}, {modal logic}, {linear logic}, {paradox}. 2. "electronics" {Boolean} logic circuits. See also {arithmetic and logic unit}, {asynchronous logic}, {TTL}. (1995-03-17)
logic ::: 1. (philosophy, mathematics) A branch of philosophy and mathematics that deals with the formal principles, methods and criteria of validity of inference, reasoning and knowledge.Logic is concerned with what is true and how we can know whether something is true. This involves the formalisation of logical arguments and proofs in terms these logical connectives are expressed by a set of rules which are assumed to be self-evident.Boolean algebra deals with the basic operations of truth values: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. Predicate logic extends this with existential and premises to valid conclusions, where the premises and conclusions are expressions in predicate logic.Symbolic logic uses a meta-language concerned with truth, which may or may not have a corresponding expression in the world of objects called existance. In rules or primitives which are assumed to be self-evident. Fortunately, even from vague primitives, functions can be defined with precise meaning.Boolean logic deals with the basic operations of truth values: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. Predicate logic extends this with existential quantifiers describes how we may proceed from valid premises to valid conclusions, where these are expressions in predicate logic.Carnap used the phrase rational reconstruction to describe the logical analysis of thought. Thus logic is less concerned with how thought does proceed, to discover truth. It is the touchstone of the results of thinking, but neither its regulator nor a motive for its practice.See also fuzzy logic, logic programming, arithmetic and logic unit, first-order logic,See also Boolean logic, fuzzy logic, logic programming, first-order logic, logic bomb, combinatory logic, higher-order logic, intuitionistic logic, equational logic, modal logic, linear logic, paradox.2. (electronics) Boolean logic circuits.See also arithmetic and logic unit, asynchronous logic, TTL. (1995-03-17)
logic ::: 1. The science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference. 2. The system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study. 3. Convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness. logic"s.
logical address ::: virtual address
logical address {virtual address}
logical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.
According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical.
Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.
logical atomism ::: Bertrand Russell developed logical atomism in an attempt to identify the atoms of thought – pieces of thought that cannot be divided into smaller pieces of thought.
logical behaviorism ::: Established by Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind (1949).
logical complement ::: (logic) In Boolean algebra, the logical complement or negation of a Boolean value is the opposite value, given by the following truth table: A | -A--+--- \neg) or as A'. In the C programming language, it is !A and in digital circuit design, /A. (1995-01-24)
logical complement "logic" In {Boolean algebra}, the logical complement or negation of a Boolean value is the opposite value, given by the following {truth table}: A | -A --+--- T | F F | T -A is also written as A with a bar over it or with a small vertical line hanging from the right-hand end of the "-" ({LaTeX} \neg) or as A'. In the {C} programming language, it is !A and in digital circuit design, /A. (1995-01-24)
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logical empiricism: in philosophy of science, the assumption that it is possible to compare and evaluate theories in terms of how well they account for the evidence.
logical equivalence: The relation between 2 sentences whose logical values are always the same.
logical (From the technical term "logical device", wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary "logical" name) Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the "logical" Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement). Compare {virtual}. At Stanford, "logical" compass directions denote a coordinate system in which "logical north" is toward San Francisco, "logical west" is toward the ocean, etc., even though logical north varies between physical (true) north near San Francisco and physical west near San Jose. (The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-and-south.) In giving directions, one might say: "To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto {El Camino Bignum} going logical north." Using the word "logical" helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labelled with logical rather than physical directions. A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that has grown up along it) is a 3-quarters circle surrounding Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as "clockwise" and "counterclockwise", but the road signs all say "north" and "south", respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as "logical north" and "logical south", to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words. (If you went logical south along the entire length of route 128, you would start out going northwest, curve around to the south, and finish headed due east, passing along one infamous stretch of pavement that is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is signed as such!) [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-24)
logical ::: (From the technical term logical device, wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary logical name) Having the role of. If a person (say, Les replacement would for a while be known as the logical Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement).Compare virtual.At Stanford, logical compass directions denote a coordinate system in which logical north is toward San Francisco, logical west is toward the ocean, which are almost, but not quite, consistently labelled with logical rather than physical directions.A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that has grown up along it) is a 3-quarters circle surrounding Boston infamous stretch of pavement that is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is signed as such!)[Jargon File] (1995-01-24)
logicality ::: n. --> Logicalness.
logically ::: adv. --> In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
logicalness ::: n. --> The quality of being logical.
logical positivism
logical relation A {relation} R satisfying f R g "=" For all a, b, a R b =" f a R g b This definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
logical relation ::: A relation R satisfying f R g => For all a, b, a R b => f a R g bThis definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
logical shift left ::: logical shift
logical shift left {logical shift}
logical shift ::: (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative).Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory. (1996-07-02)
logical shift "programming" (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a {bit string} or a sequence of {bit fields}, whereas {arithmetic shift} is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a {register}, or possibly in memory. (1996-07-02)
logical shift right ::: logical shift
logical shift right {logical shift}
logic. A term used to render Sanskrit YUKTI or NYĀYA, referring in general to the system of reasoning developed by DIGNĀGA and DHARMAKĪRTI that sets forth the constituents of correct reasoning and how such reasoning results in inference (ANUMĀNA). See also HETUVIDYĀ, LAKsAnA, LInGA.
logic bomb "programming, security" Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or {operating system} that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare {back door}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-07-02)
logic bomb ::: (programming, security) Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or operating system that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met.Compare back door.[Jargon File] (1996-07-02)
logic emulator A system of {FPGAs}, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a {microprocessor}. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an {integrated circuit}. {Quickturn} is the leading logic emulation system. (1994-11-29)
logic emulator ::: A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.Quickturn is the leading logic emulation system. (1994-11-29)
logic: (from Classical Greek λόγος logos; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
logic gate An {integrated circuit} or other device whose inputs and outputs represent {Boolean} or binary values as voltages ({TTL} uses 0V for False or 0, +5V for True or 1). Different gates implement different Boolean functions: {AND}, {OR}, {NAND}, {NOR} (these may take two or more inputs) {NOT} (one input), {XOR} (two inputs). NOT, NAND and NOR are often constructed from single {transistors} and the other gates made from combinations of these basic ones. These functions are all {combinatorial logic} functions, i.e. their outputs depend only on their inputs and there is no internal state. Gates with state, such as {latches} and {flip-flops}, are constructed by feeding some of their outputs back to their inputs. (1995-02-08)
logic gate ::: An integrated circuit or other device whose inputs and outputs represent Boolean or binary values as voltages (TTL uses 0V for False or 0, +5V for True or 1). internal state. Gates with state, such as latches and flip-flops, are constructed by feeding some of their outputs back to their inputs. (1995-02-08)
logician ::: n. --> A person skilled in logic.
logicism ::: A school of thought in the philosophy of mathematics, putting forth the theory that mathematics is an extension of logic and therefore all mathematics is reducible to logic.[16] Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead championed this theory fathered by Gottlob Frege. Frege gave up on the project after Russell recognized a paradox exposing an inconsistency in naive set theory. Russell and Whitehead continued on with the project in their Principia Mathematica.[17]
logic ::: n. --> The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.
A treatise on logic; as, Mill&
logic programming "artificial intelligence, programming, language" A {declarative}, {relational} style of programming based on {first-order logic}. The original logic programming language was {Prolog}. The concept is based on {Horn clauses}. The programmer writes a "database" of "{facts}", e.g. wet(water). ("water is wet") and "{rules}", e.g. mortal(X) :- human(X). ("X is mortal is implied by X is human"). Facts and rules are collectively known as "{clauses}". The user supplies a "{goal}" which the system attempts to prove using "{resolution}" or "{backward chaining}". This involves matching the current goal against each fact or the left hand side of each rule using "{unification}". If the goal matches a fact, the goal succeeds; if it matches a rule then the process recurses, taking each sub-goal on the right hand side of the rule as the current goal. If all sub-goals succeed then the rule succeeds. Each time a possible clause is chosen, a "{choice point}" is created on a {stack}. If subsequent {resolution} fails then control eventually returns to the choice point and subsequent clauses are tried. This is known as "{backtracking}". Clauses may contain {logic variables} which take on any value necessary to make the fact or the left hand side of the rule match a goal. Unification binds these variables to the corresponding subterms of the goal. Such bindings are associated with the {choice point} at which the clause was chosen and are undone when backtracking reaches that choice point. The user is informed of the success or failure of his first goal and if it succeeds and contains variables he is told what values of those variables caused it to succeed. He can then ask for alternative solutions. (1997-07-14)
logic programming ::: (artificial intelligence, programming, language) A declarative, relational style of programming based on first-order logic. The original logic programming language was Prolog. The concept is based on Horn clauses.The programmer writes a database of facts, e.g. wet(water). (water is wet) and rules, e.g. mortal(X) :- human(X). (X is mortal is implied by X is human). Facts and rules are collectively known as clauses.The user supplies a goal which the system attempts to prove using resolution or backward chaining. This involves matching the current goal against each taking each sub-goal on the right hand side of the rule as the current goal. If all sub-goals succeed then the rule succeeds.Each time a possible clause is chosen, a choice point is created on a stack. If subsequent resolution fails then control eventually returns to the choice point and subsequent clauses are tried. This is known as backtracking.Clauses may contain logic variables which take on any value necessary to make the fact or the left hand side of the rule match a goal. Unification binds these associated with the choice point at which the clause was chosen and are undone when backtracking reaches that choice point.The user is informed of the success or failure of his first goal and if it succeeds and contains variables he is told what values of those variables caused it to succeed. He can then ask for alternative solutions. (1997-07-14)
logic programming ::: A type of programming paradigm which is largely based on formal logic. Any program written in a logic programming language is a set of sentences in logical form, expressing facts and rules about some problem domain. Major logic programming language families include Prolog, answer set programming (ASP), and Datalog.
logic
logics ::: n. --> See Logic.
logic variable ::: (programming) A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined (unbound) but may get bound to a value or another logic value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound.For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom billgates yielding the new subgoal computer(billgates, ibmpc). (1995-03-14)
logic variable "programming" A variable in a {logic programming} language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during {unification} of the containing clause with the current {goal}. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)". (1995-03-14)
Logical Block Addressing ::: (storage) (LBA) A hard disk sector addressing scheme used on all SCSI hard disks, and on ATA-2 conforming IDE hard disks. The addressing conversion is performed by the hard disk firmware.Prior to LBA, combined limitations of IBM PC BIOS and ATA restricted the useful capacity of IDE hard disks on IBM PCs and compatibles to 1024 cylinders * 63 9x, Windows NT and Linux) are not affected by it, since they issue direct LBA-based calls, bypassing the BIOS hard disk services completely.(2000-04-30)
Logical Block Addressing "storage" (LBA) A {hard disk} {sector} addressing scheme used on all {SCSI} hard disks, and on {ATA-2} conforming {IDE} hard disks. The addressing conversion is performed by the hard disk firmware. Prior to LBA, combined limitations of {IBM PC} {BIOS} and {ATA} restricted the useful capacity of IDE hard disks on IBM PCs and compatibles to 1024 cylinders * 63 sectors per track * 16 heads * 512 bytes per sector = 528 million bytes = 504 megabytes. Modern BIOSes select LBA mode automatically, and work around the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit by representing a hard disk to the OS as having e.g. half as many cylinders and twice as many heads. However, there is still an unbreakable BIOS disk size limit of 1024 cylinders * 63 sectors per track * 256 heads * 512 bytes per sector = 8 gigabytes, but modern OSes (including {Windows 9x}, {Windows NT} and {Linux}) are not affected by it, since they issue direct LBA-based calls, bypassing the BIOS hard disk services completely. (2000-04-30)
Logical Interchange Format ::: (file format, file system) (LIF) A Hewlett-Packard simple file system format used to boot HP-PA machines and to interchange files between older HP 10-character case sensitive filenames and 2-byte file types, followed by the files. .(2003-10-09)
Logical Interchange Format "file format, file system" (LIF) A {Hewlett-Packard} simple {file system} format used to {boot} {HP-PA} machines and to interchange files between older HP machines. A LIF file system is a header, containing a single directory, with 10-character {case sensitive} filenames and 2-byte {file types}, followed by the files. {LIF Utilities for linux (http://hpcc.org/hpil/lif_utils.html)}. (2003-10-09)
Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol ::: (protocol) (L2CAP) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack providing data services to higher layer Bluetooth protocols. .(2002-06-28)
Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol "protocol" (L2CAP) A {Bluetooth} {protocol} in the {Core Protocol Stack} providing data services to higher layer Bluetooth protocols. {L2CAP Layer Tutorial (http://palowireless.com/infotooth/tutorial/l2cap.asp)}. (2002-06-28)
Logical Link Control "networking" (LLC) The upper portion of the {data link layer}, as defined in {IEEE 802.2}. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the {network layer}. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the {Media Access Control} (MAC) sublayer. (1995-02-14)
Logical Link Control ::: (networking) (LLC) The upper portion of the data link layer, as defined in IEEE 802.2. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer. (1995-02-14)
Logically, one should look for Shamshiel, prince of Paradise, 44 in zebul or sagun (the 3rd
Logically, the pragmatic assumption that life is superior to logical form,
Logical meaning: See meaning, kinds of, 3. Logical Positivism: See Scientific Empiricism. Logical truth: See Meaning, kinds of, 3; and Truth, semantical. Logistic: The old use of the word logistic to mean the art of calculation, or common arithmetic, is now nearly obsolete. In Seventeenth Century English the corresponding adjective was also sometimes used to mean simply logical. Leibniz occasionally employed logistica (as also logica mathematica) as one of various alternative names for his calculus ratiocinator. The modern use of logistic (French logistique) as a synonym for symbolic logic (q. v.) dates from the International Congress of Philosophy of 1904, where it was proposed independently by Itelson, Lalande, and Couturat. The word logistic has been employed by some with special reference to the Frege-Russell doctrine that mathematics is reducible to logic, but it would seem that the better usage makes it simply a synonym of symbolic logic. -- A. C.
Logical, physical, and moral necessity are founded in logical, physical, and moral laws respectively. Anything is logically necessary the denial of which would violate a law of logic. Thus in ordinary commutative algebra the implication from the postulates to ab-ba is logically necessary, since its denial would violate a logical law (viz. the commutative rule) of this system.
Logical Unit 6.2 "networking" (LU6.2) A type of {logical unit} that governs peer-to-peer {SNA} communications. LU6.2 supports general communication between programs in a distributed processing environment. LU6.2 is characterised by a {peer} relationship between {session partners}, efficient use of a session for multiple {transactions}, comprehensive end-to-end error processing and a generic {application program interface} consisting of {structured verbs} that are mapped into a product inplementation. LU6.2 is used by {IBM}'s {TPF} {operating system}. [IBM Dictionary of Computing, McGraw-Hill 1993]. (1996-08-26)
Logical Unit 6.2 ::: (networking) (LU6.2) A type of logical unit that governs peer-to-peer SNA communications. LU6.2 supports general communication between programs in a distributed processing environment.LU6.2 is characterised by a peer relationship between session partners, efficient use of a session for multiple transactions, comprehensive end-to-end error processing and a generic application program interface consisting of structured verbs that are mapped into a product inplementation.LU6.2 is used by IBM's TPF operating system.[IBM Dictionary of Computing, McGraw-Hill 1993]. (1996-08-26)
Logical Unit "networking" (LU) A primary component of {SNA}, an {LU} is a type of {NAU} that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources. (1997-04-30)
Logical Unit ::: (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources. (1997-04-30)
Logical Unit Number "storage" (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a {SCSI} bus to distinguish between up to eight devices ({logical units}) with the same {SCSI ID}. (1999-02-11)
Logical Unit Number ::: (storage) (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID. (1999-02-11)
Logic An attempt to formulate the processes of the ratiocinative mind, connecting idea with idea in a causal sequence, leading from predicate to conclusion. When the predicate consists of axioms, the species of logic is called deductive, or reasoning from the general to the particular; when the predicate is facts of experience, the logic is called inductive, or proceeding from particulars to generals. As a means of arriving at truth it alone is quite unreliable, as it is but a body of rules based on human experiences, and hence it is often rather a means of justifying conclusions after they have already been formed. This unreliability arises both from the difficulty of applying the process with rigid precision, and also from the uncertainty of the predicates in both systems. A study of what is written on logic will show that there is no agreement as to what constitutes an axiom — whether it is an intuitive perception of truth, or whether it is merely an inference from experience. The same uncertainty exists as to the validity of the assumptions from which inductive chains of reasoning are drawn.
Logic Design Language "language" A language for computer design. ["A System Description Language Using Parametric Text Generation", R.H. Williams, TR 02.487, IBM San Jose, Aug 1970]. (1994-11-29)
Logic Design Language ::: (language) A language for computer design.[A System Description Language Using Parametric Text Generation, R.H. Williams, TR 02.487, IBM San Jose, Aug 1970]. (1994-11-29)
Logic for Computable Functions "language" (LCF) Part of the {Edinburgh proof assistant}. [What is it? Address?] (1995-01-06)
Logic for Computable Functions ::: (language) (LCF) Part of the Edinburgh proof assistant.[What is it? Address?] (1995-01-06)
Logic, formal: Investigates the structure of propositions and of deductive reasoning by a method which abstracts from the content of propositions which come under consideration and deals only with their logical form. The distinction between form and content can be made definite with the aid of a particular language or symbolism in which propositions are expressed, and the formal method can then be characterized by the fact that it deals with the objective form of sentences which express propositions and provides in these concrete terms criteria of meaningfulness and validity of inference. This formulation of the matter presupposes the selection of a particular language which is to be regarded as logically exact and free from the ambiguities and irregularities of structure which appear in English (or other languages of everyday use) -- i.e., it makes the distinction between form and content relative to the choice of a language. Many logicians prefer to postulate an abstract form for propositions themselves, and to characterize the logical exactness of a language by the uniformity with which the concrete form of its sentences reproduces or parallels the form of the propositions which they express. At all events it is practically necessary to introduce a special logical language, or symbolic notation, more exact than ordinary English usage, if topics beyond the most elementary are to be dealt with (see logistic system, and semiotic).
Logic, I felt, was my only safe anchor in reality; but if, as Walter Nigg points out, “angels
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LOGIC—The science or doctrine of correct thinking; the principles governing the reasoning faculties in the pursuit and exposition of truth.
Logic: The sum of characteristics which connote a class notion symbolized by a general term. Also, the features common to a number of in stances or objects. Thus, the connotation (q.v.) or intension (q.v.) of a concept. See Intension. -- O.F.K.
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1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. 2. The spiritual apprehension of divine truths, or of realities beyond the reach of sensible experience or logical proof.
a- ::: --> A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-,
abiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
abirritation ::: n. --> A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
absurd ::: a. --> Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. ::: n. --> An absurdity.
absurdity ::: n. --> The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
acologic ::: a. --> Pertaining to acology.
adenological ::: a. --> Pertaining to adenology.
aerologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Aerological
aerological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to aerology.
aerographical ::: a. --> Pertaining to aerography; aerological.
aetiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause.
african ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Africa. ::: n. --> A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
agrostologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Agrostological
agrostological ::: a. --> Pertaining to agrostology.
algological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
algum ::: n. --> Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
Amal: “This is the scientific building of knowledge by a logical process—a massing together of little observations into a coherent whole. It implies the loss of the original knowledge which was direct and grasped at once from all sides and not structured piece by piece from small bits of logical deduction.”
amphibiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to amphibiology.
amphibological ::: a. --> Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous.
A mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. 2. A horrible or unreal creature of the imagination. chimaeras.
analogical ::: a. --> Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
Having analogy; analogous.
analogically ::: adv. --> In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.
analogicalness ::: n. --> Quality of being analogical.
analogic ::: a. --> Of or belonging to analogy.
anachronism ::: n. --> A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
angle ::: n. --> The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
The figure made by. two lines which meet.
The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line,
anglo-saxonism ::: n. --> A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
animalculism ::: n. --> The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
annals ::: n. pl. --> A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
Historical records; chronicles; history.
The record of a single event or item.
A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."
anthological ::: a. --> Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.
anthropologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Anthropological
anthropological ::: a. --> Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.
ANUBHAVA. ::: The system of getting rid of things by anubhava* has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicāra+ t or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place. The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability ; for in order to reject anything from the being, one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is en entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement.
arachnological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to arachnology.
araucarian ::: a. --> Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.
archaean ::: a. --> Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history. ::: n. --> The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of
archaeological ::: --> Relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches.
archaeologic ::: --> Alt. of Archaeological
archeological ::: a. --> Same as Archaeology, etc.
archeology ::: a. --> Alt. of Archeological
a record or account, often chronological in approach, of past events, developments, etc.
are ::: --> The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as. ::: n. --> The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square
aryan ::: n. --> One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
The language of the original Aryans.
A specialist of logic’s hard machine
assyriological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.
astrologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Astrological
astrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology.
ASTROLOGY. ::: Many astrological predictions come true, quite a mass of them, if one takes all together. But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force, - or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indications. The astrologers themselves say that there are two forces, daiva and puruṣakāra, fate and individual energy, and the individual energy can modify and even frustrate fate. Moreover, the stars often indicate several fatepossibilities; for example, that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from the ordinary to the spiritual life. If the turn is very radical, the cessation of predictability may be immediate; otherwise certain results may still last on for a time ; but there is no longer the sure inevitability.
astrology ::: n. --> In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.
astromantic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic.
atheological ::: a. --> Opposed to theology; atheistic.
atmologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Atmological
atmological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to atmology.
azymous ::: a. --> Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic
babel ::: “The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens’. God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
background ::: n.** 1. The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed. 2. Fig. The complex of physical, cultural, and psychological factors that serves as the environment of an event or experience; the set of conditions against which an occurrence is perceived. backgrounds. adj. 3.** Of, pertaining to, or serving as a background.
bacteriological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.
balance ::: n. **1. A state of equilibrium or equipoise; mental, psychological or emotional. 2. A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless. 3. An undecided or uncertain state in which issues are unresolved. v. 4. To have an equality or equivalence in weight, parts, etc.; be in equilibrium. adj. 5. Being in harmonious or proper arrangement or adjustment, proportion. 6. Mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behaviour, judgement. balanced, balancing.**
basset ::: n. --> A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. ::: a. --> Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
bibliological ::: a. --> Relating to bibliology.
biologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Biological
biological ::: a. --> Of or relating to biology.
bion ::: p. pr. --> The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
biorgan ::: n. --> A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
logic ::: 1. The science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference. 2. The system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study. 3. Convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness. logic"s.
logical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.
According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical.
Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.
logicality ::: n. --> Logicalness.
logically ::: adv. --> In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
logicalness ::: n. --> The quality of being logical.
logician ::: n. --> A person skilled in logic.
logic ::: n. --> The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.
A treatise on logic; as, Mill&
logics ::: n. --> See Logic.
bovey coal ::: --> A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
bruised ::: hurt, especially psychologically, beaten; pounded; crushed.
bryological ::: a. --> Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.
But all this must not be taken in too rigid and mechanical a sense. It is an immense plastic movement full of the play of possibilities and must be seized by a flexible and subtle tact or sense in the seeing conscioosness. It cannot be reduced to a too rigorous logical or mathematical formula. Two or three points must be pressed in order that this plasticity may not be lost to our view.
calculate ::: v. i. --> To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one&
calvinism ::: n. --> The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
carcinological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to carcinology.
carpological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to carpology.
cataclysmist ::: n. --> One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.
catastrophism ::: n. --> The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth&
cenozoic ::: a. --> Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
CENT, There is no connection between the Christian concep- tion (of the Kingdom of Heaven) and the idea of the Supra- mental descent. The Christian conception supposes a state of things brought about by religious emotion' and d'mdral'purifica- tion but ' these things are no more"capable of changing the world, 'whatever value they may base for the individual, than mental idealism or any bther power yet called upon for the pur- pose] The Christian proposes to substitute the sattsic religious ego for the rajasic and tamasic cgo| but although this can be donc-as an individual achievement, it has never succeeded and win never succeed in • accomplishing itself in the mass. It has no higher spiritual or psjchological knowledge behind it and ignores the' foundation -of htimao character and the source of the difBculty — the duality 6f mind, ‘life and body. Unless there is a descent of a new Power of Consdousness, not subject to the dualities but still dynamic which will preside a new foundation and a lifting of the centre of consciousness above the mind, the
cetological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to cetology.
CHEIROMANCY. ::: Each man is an individual by himself with his own peculiar formation different from others and made by minute variations in the general human plan, — this is true of small physical characteristics, it is evidently equally true of psychological characteristics ; it is not unreasonable to suppose a correlation between the two. On that basis cheiromancy may very well have a truth in it, for it is a known fact that the lines in an individual hand are different from the lines in others and that this, as well as differences of physiognomy, may carry in it psychological indications is not impossible.
chimaera ::: 1. A mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion"s head, a goat"s body, and a serpent"s tail. 2. A horrible or unreal creature of the imagination. chimaeras.
chirological ::: a. --> Relating to chirology.
chop-logic ::: n. --> One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
chronologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Chronological
chronological ::: a. --> Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
circean ::: a. --> Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.
circular ::: a. --> In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a
circulary ::: a. --> Circular; illogical.
climatological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to climatology.
cohere ::: a. --> To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
To suit; to agree; to fit.
coherent ::: a. --> Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.
cohesion ::: n. --> The act or state of sticking together; close union.
That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
conchological ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
confused ::: 1. Lacking logical order or sense. 2. *adj. Disordered and difficult to understand or make sense of. *3. Chaotic; jumbled.
consectary ::: a. --> Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. ::: n. --> That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.
consecution ::: n. --> A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
A succession or series of any kind.
consecutive ::: a. --> Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.
consequence ::: 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. 2. Significance; importance.
consequential ::: a. --> Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.
Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.
consequentially ::: adv. --> With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically.
By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially.
In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.
With assumed importance; pompously.
consequently ::: adv. --> By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.
constant ::: v. t. --> Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.
Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.
Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.
Consistent; logical. ::: n.
constellations ::: any of the 88 groups of stars as seen from the earth and the solar system, many of which were named by the ancient Greeks after animals, objects, or mythological persons.
convertend ::: n. --> Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).
cormogeny ::: n. --> The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
cosmological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to cosmology.
craniological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to craniology.
crustalogical ::: a. --> Pertaining to crustalogy.
crustaceological ::: a. --> Pertaining to crustaceology.
curiologic ::: a. --> Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
cyclic ::: 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by cycles. 2. Recurring or moving in specific chronological cycles.
daemon ::: 1. A guardian spirit. 2. *Mythology: A mythological being that is part-god and part-human. *3. A demigod.
deduce ::: v. t. --> To lead forth.
To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole.
To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.
deduction ::: logic. A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
deduplication ::: n. --> The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
deep ::: n. 1. A vast extent, as of space or time; an abyss. 2. Fig. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; as an unfathomable thought, idea, esp. poetic. Deep, deep"s, deeps. adj. 3. Extending far downward below a surface. 4. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination. 5. Coming from or penetrating to a great depth. 6. Situated far down, in, or back. 7. Lying below the surface; not superficial; profound. 8. Of great intensity; as extreme deep happiness, deep trouble. 9. Absorbing; engrossing. 10. Grave or serious. 11. Profoundly or intensely. 12. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to penetrate or understand. 13. Low in pitch or tone. 14. Profoundly cunning, crafty or artful. 15. The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night”; "in the deep of winter”. deeper, deepest, deep-browed, deep-caved, deep-concealed, deep-etched, deep-fraught, deep-guarded, deep-hid, deep-honied, deep-pooled, deep-thoughted. *adv. *16. to a great depth psychologically or profoundly.
demigod ::: a mythological being who is partly divine and partly human; an inferior deity. demigod"s, demigods.
demonologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Demonological
demonological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to demonology.
deontological ::: a. --> Pertaining to deontology.
desultory ::: a. --> Leaping or skipping about.
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
dialogical ::: a. --> Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.
dialogically ::: adv. --> In the manner or nature of a dialogue.
dialectical ::: a. --> Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
dialectician ::: n. --> One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
dialectics ::: n. --> That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
dilogical ::: a. --> Ambiguous; of double meaning.
diluvialist ::: n. --> One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
diorism ::: n. --> Definition; logical direction.
::: "Discoveries will be made that thin the walls between soul and matter; attempts there will be to extend exact knowledge into the psychological and psychic realms with a realisation of the truth that these have laws of their own which are other than the physical, but not the less laws because they escape the external senses and are infinitely plastic and subtle.” The Human Cycle, etc.
“Discoveries will be made that thin the walls between soul and matter; attempts there will be to extend exact knowledge into the psychological and psychic realms with a realisation of the truth that these have laws of their own which are other than the physical, but not the less laws because they escape the external senses and are infinitely plastic and subtle.” The Human Cycle, etc.
distinguish ::: v. t. --> Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.
To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate
domify ::: v. t. --> To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.
To tame; to domesticate.
doxological ::: a. --> Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.
DRY PERIOD. ::: There is a long stage of preparation neces- sary in order to arrive at the moer psychologic^ condition in which the doors of experience can open and one can walk from vista to vista — though even then new gates may present them- selves and refuse to open until all is ready. This period can be dry and desert-like unless one has the ardour of self-introspec- tion and self-conquest and finds every step of the effort and struggle interesting or unless one has or gets the secret of trust and self-giving which secs the hand of the Divine in every step of the path and even in the difficulty the grace or the guidance.
Such interval periods come to all and cannot be avoided.
The main thing is to meet them with quietude and not become restless, depressed or despondent. A constant fire can be there only when a certain stage has been reached, that is when one is always inside consciously living in the psychic being, but for that all this preparation of the mind, vital, physical is necessary.
For this fire belongs to the psychic and one cannot command it always merely by the mind's effort. The psychic has to be fully liberated and that is what the Force is working to make fully possible.
The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This dryness is a well- known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has to persist and not be discouraged. If one keep? the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible.
Dryness comes usually when the vital dislikes a movement or' condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-co-operation.
But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place, i.e, peace, joy, a higher know- ledge or force or action.
dyke ::: n. --> See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
ecclesiological ::: a. --> Belonging to ecclesiology.
edda ::: n. --> The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
egyptological ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.
electro-physiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
electro-physiology ::: n. --> That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.
elf ::: n. --> An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
A very diminutive person; a dwarf. ::: v. t.
embryologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Embryological
embryological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to embryology.
ensue ::: v. t. --> To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake. ::: v. i. --> To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.
entomical ::: a. --> Relating to insects; entomological.
entomologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Entomological
entomological ::: a. --> Of or relating to entomology.
epilogic ::: a. --> Alt. of Epilogical
epilogical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an epilogue.
epidemiological ::: a. --> Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
equilibration ::: n. --> Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.
The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance.
ergat ::: v. t. --> To deduce logically, as conclusions.
ergotism ::: n. --> A logical deduction.
A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.
eschatological ::: a. --> Pertaining to the last or final things.
essence ::: n. --> The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of
ethnical ::: a. --> Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.
ethnologic ::: a --> Alt. of Ethnological
ethnological ::: a --> Of or pertaining to ethnology.
ethnologically ::: adv. --> In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.
ethologic ::: a --> Alt. of Ethological
ethological ::: a --> treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
etiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
etymological ::: a. --> Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
etymologicon ::: n. --> An etymological dictionary or manual.
etymology ::: n. --> That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
eulogic ::: a. --> Alt. of Eulogical
eulogical ::: a. --> Bestowing praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic.
expressional ::: a. --> Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.
extralogical ::: a. --> Lying outside of the domain of logic.
eysell ::: n. --> Same as Eisel. F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit,
fallacious ::: a. --> Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
finn ::: a. --> A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
fluvialist ::: n. --> One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
form ::: “Form is the basic means of manifestation and without it it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested?” Letters on Yoga
FORM. ::: Form is the basic means of manifestation and with- out it, it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes the Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested? For any other process would be the creation of the non-existent, not manifestation.
For the others, the “ baby monkey ” type or those who are still more independent, following their own ideas, doing their own sadhana, asking only for some instruction or help, the grace of the Guru is there, but it acts according to the nature of the sadhaka and counts upon his efforts to a greater or less degree ; it helps, succours in difficulty, saves in the time of danger ; the disciple is not always, is perhaps hardly at all aware of what is being done as he is absorbed in himself and his endeavour. In such cases the decisive psychological movement, the touch that makes all clear, may lake longer to come.
fresh-water ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.
Unskilled; raw.
galvanoscopy ::: n. --> The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.
genealogic ::: a. --> Genealogical.
genealogical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.
geologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Geological
geological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.
geologically ::: adv. --> In a geological manner.
geognostical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.
geologize ::: v. i. --> To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.
geology ::: n. --> The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.
A treatise on the science.
glossological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to glossology.
glottological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to glottology.
gnomologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Gnomological
gnomological ::: a. --> Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.
gynecological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to gynecology.
harm ::: n. 1. Physical or psychological injury or damage. harms. v. 2. To injure physically, morally, or mentally.
hegelism ::: n. --> The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).
helminthologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Helminthological
helminthological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to helminthology.
“He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
(he power above (he ordinary logical reason which gives the direct knowledge.
heredity ::: n. --> Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
herpetologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Herpetological
herpetological ::: a. --> Pertaining to herpetology.
heterodox ::: a. --> Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects.
Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons. ::: n.
hierologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Hierological
hierological ::: a. --> Pertaining to hierology.
histologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Histological
histological ::: a. --> Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.
histology ::: n. --> That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.
homological ::: a. --> Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology.
homocategoric ::: a. --> Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.
homodemic ::: a. --> A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
homophyly ::: n. --> That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
horological ::: a. --> Relating to a horologe, or to horology.
hydrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to hydrology.
hydrometeorological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.
hypoderma ::: n. --> A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
hysteron proteron ::: --> A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.
hythe ::: n. --> A small haven. See Hithe. I () I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. html{color:
ichnological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ichnology.
ichthyologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Ichthyological
ichthyological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ichthyology.
idealogic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.
identical ::: a. --> The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.
Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.
ideological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ideology.
idiom ::: n. --> The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.
Dialect; a variant form of a language.
idorgan ::: n. --> A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.
IGNORANCE. ::: Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life.
This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth.
Sevenfold Ignorance ::: If we look at this Ignorance in which ordinarily we live by the very circumstance of our separative existence in a material, ip a spatial and temporal universe, wc see that on its obscurer side it reduces itself, from whatever direction we look at or approach it, into the fact of a many- sided self-ignorance. We are Ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming ; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence — that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self ; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becom- ing in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming ; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-sclf — that is the tViTid, \Vie egoistic ignorance. V/c aie ignorant of oat eteinai becoming in Time ; we take this Uttle life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space for our beginning, our middle and our end, — that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is super-conscient, sub- conscient, intraconscient, circumcooscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence — that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming ; we take the mind or life or body or any two or all three tor our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to deter- mine sovereignly by its emergence from their operations, — that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoy- ment of our life in the world ; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal, — that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
illogical ::: a. --> Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.
illegitimate ::: a. --> Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.
incoherent ::: a. --> Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.
incoherent ::: without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling. incoherence, incoherencies.
inconsequence ::: n. --> The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness.
inconsequent ::: a. --> Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
inference ::: the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
instinct ::: 1. A natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency. 2. An inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species. 3. A natural aptitude or gift. 4. Natural intuitive power. instinct"s, instincts, instinct-driven, instinctive.
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
In the process of our yoga the centres, called tectmlcally lotuses or circles {cakra), have each a fi.ted psychological use and general function which bases all theif special powers and func- tionings.
involve ::: v. t. --> To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to
irrational ::: 1. Not endowed with reason. 2. Inconsistent with reason or logic; illogical; absurd.
isagogics ::: n. --> That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures.
jesse ::: n. --> Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art
A genealogical tree represented in stained glass.
A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse.
judgment ::: v. i. --> The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding
junold ::: a. --> See Gimmal. K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).
kyriological ::: a. --> Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic.
kytoplasma ::: n. --> See Karyoplasma. L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus). html{color:
laboratory ::: n. --> The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
laryngological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to laryngology.
lemma ::: n. --> A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
line ::: 1. *Gen.* Text consisting of a row of words written across a page. 2. A chronological or ancestral series, esp. of people. 3. A course of progress or movement; a route. 4. A manner or course of procedure determined by a specified factor. 5. A sequence of related things that leads to a certain ending. 6. A border or boundary. 7. A narrow continuous mark, as one made by a pencil, pen, or brush across a surface.
lithologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Lithological
lithological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.
Of or pertaining to lithology.
lithologically ::: adv. --> From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.
logistical ::: a. --> Logical.
Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.
MADNESS. ::: People go mad because they have a physical predisposition due either to heredity or to some kind of organic cause or secret illness Eke syphilis, the action being often brought up by some psychological factor (ambition turning to megalomania, hypochondria, melancholia etc.). There may be an invasion of an alien Force bringing about the upsetting, but it is not the Divine Force, it is a vital Force that invades. The
malacostracology ::: n. --> That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
mammalogical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to mammalogy.
Man has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusion of the body and the senses and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.
martyrologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Martyrological
martyrological ::: a. --> Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.
mazological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to mazology.
metalogical ::: a. --> Beyond the scope or province of logic.
meteorological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology.
meteorograph ::: n. --> An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.
meteorography ::: n. --> The registration of meteorological phenomena.
meteoroligic ::: a. --> Alt. of Meteorological
methodological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to methodology.
metrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metrology.
micrologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Micrological
micrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination.
micro-geological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to micro-geology.
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
mineralogical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
mineralogically ::: adv. --> According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
mood ::: n. --> Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
morphologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Morphological
morphological ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology.
morphon ::: n. --> A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology.
morphotic ::: a. --> Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids.
motive ::: n. 1. An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action. motives. adj. **2. Of or constituting an incitement to action. 3. In art, literature and music: A motif (a recurring subject, theme, idea). motived, motiveless. v. 4. To incite; motivate. motives.**
mycologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Mycological
mycological ::: a. --> Of or relating to mycology, or the fungi.
mydatoxin ::: n. --> A poisonous amido acid, C6H13NO2, separated by Brieger from decaying horseflesh. In physiological action, it is similar to curare.
myologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Myological
myological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to myology.
“My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths,—living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” The Secret of the Veda
myriological ::: a. --> Of or relating to a myriologue.
mythologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Mythological
mythological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous.
necrologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Necrological
necrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.
neologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Neological
neological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.
neologically ::: adv. --> In a neological manner.
neologian ::: a. --> Neologic; neological. ::: n. --> A neologist.
neologistical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to neology; neological.
neologize ::: v. i. --> To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.
To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.
neology ::: n. --> The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.
A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.
neurological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to neurolgy.
noological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to noology.
normal ::: a. --> According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
Standard; original; exact; typical.
Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in
nosological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to nosology.
notation ::: n. --> The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.
Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.
Literal or etymological signification.
nyula ::: n. --> A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings. O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. html{color:
ontological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ontology.
ontologically ::: adv. --> In an ontological manner.
ontologic ::: a. --> Ontological.
oological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to oology.
ophiologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Ophiological
ophiological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ophiology.
ophthalmological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ophthalmology.
oppressed ::: v. 1. Overwhelmed or crushed, esp. in battle. 2. To lie heavy on; burdened (the mind, imagination, etc.). oppresses, oppressed, oppressing.* *n. oppressed. 3. Those who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc.; trampled down. adj. oppressed. 4.** Afflicted or tormented; burdened psychologically or mentally; caused to suffer.
order ::: 1. A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved; methodical or harmonic arrangement. 2. A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group. 3. Conformity or obedience to law or established authority. 4. A sequence or arrangement of successive things. 5. An authoritative indication to be obeyed; a command or direction. order"s, orders.
organological ::: a. --> Of or relating to organology.
orismological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to orismology.
ornithologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Ornithological
ornithological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ornithology.
orological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to orology.
oryctological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to oryctology.
osmium ::: n. --> A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.
osteologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Osteological
osteological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to osteology.
otological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining tootology.
overlogical ::: a. --> Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.
overlap ::: v. t. & i. --> To lap over; to lap. ::: n. --> The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.
An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a
oxalethyline ::: n. --> A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.
ozonous ::: a. --> Pertaining to or containing, ozone. P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.
paleontological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to paleontology.
paleozoic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
pantological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to pantology.
paralogical ::: a. --> Containing paralogism; illogical.
paralogism ::: n. --> A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
pathologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Pathological
pathological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to pathology.
penological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to penology.
perissological ::: a. --> Redundant or excessive in words.
petrologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Petrological
petrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to petrology.
petrologically ::: adv. --> According to petrology.
petrology ::: n. --> The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
A treatise on petrology.
philological ::: a. --> Alt. of Philologic
philologic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to philology.
::: ". . . philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,. . . .” Essays on the Gita
“… philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,….” Essays on the Gita
phonologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Phonological
phonological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to phonology.
photologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Photological
photological ::: a. --> Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.
phraseologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Phraseological
phraseological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.
phrenological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to phrenology.
phrenologic ::: a. --> Phrenological.
phrenology ::: n. --> The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.
In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall, that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the surface of the head or skull; craniology.
phylogeny ::: n. --> The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
physicological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to physicologic.
physicologic ::: n. --> Logic illustrated by physics.
physiological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.
physiologically ::: adv. --> In a physiological manner.
physiologic ::: a. --> Physiological.
physiologize ::: v. i. --> To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
physiophyly ::: n. --> The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.
phytological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to phytology; botanical.
plutonist ::: n. --> One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.
pneumatological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to pneumatology.
polemics ::: n. --> The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.
polygraph ::: n. --> An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions
pomological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to pomology.
posologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Posological
posological ::: a. --> Pertaining to posology.
precisive ::: a. --> Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
promerphological ::: a. --> Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception.
prosylogism ::: n. --> A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
psychologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Psychological
psychological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic.
quaternity ::: n. --> The number four.
The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
rational ::: consistent with or based on reason; logical.
reasoner ::: n. --> One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
::: "Reason, on the contrary, proceeds by analysis and division and assembles its facts to form a whole; but in the assemblage so formed there are opposites, anomalies, logical incompatibilities, and the natural tendency of Reason is to affirm some and to negate others which conflict with its chosen conclusions so that it may form a flawlessly logical system.” The Life Divine*
“Reason, on the contrary, proceeds by analysis and division and assembles its facts to form a whole; but in the assemblage so formed there are opposites, anomalies, logical incompatibilities, and the natural tendency of Reason is to affirm some and to negate others which conflict with its chosen conclusions so that it may form a flawlessly logical system.” The Life Divine
REASON. ::: The reason has its place especially with regard to certain physical things and general worldly questions — though even there it is a very fallible judge — or in the forma- tion of metaphysical conclusions and generalisations ; but its claim to be the decisive aulhori^ in matters of yoga or in spiritual things is untenable. The activities of the outward intellect there lead only to the formation of personal opinions, not to the discovery of Truth. It has always been understood in India that the reason and its logic or its judgment cannot give you the realisation of spiiitua] truths but can only assist in an intellectual presentation of ideas; realisation comes by intuition and inner experience. Reason and intellectuality cannot make you see the Divine, it is the soul that sees. Mind and the other instruments can only share in the vision when it is imparted to them by the soul and welcome and rejoice in it. But also the mind may prevent it or at least stand long in the way of the realisation of the vision. For its prepossessions. prKonceived
reason ::: v. 1. To form conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises. 2. To determine or conclude by logical thinking. reasons, reasoned.* *n. 3. An underlying fact or cause that provides logical sense for a premise or occurrence. Reason, reason"s, Reason"s. ::: *
REBIRTH. ::: If evolution is a truth and is not only a physi- cal evolution of species, but an evolution of consciousness, it must be a spiritual and not only a physical fact. In that case, it is the individual who evolves and grows into a more and more developed and perfect consciousness and obviously that cannot be done in the course of a brief single human life. If there is the evolution of a conscious individual, then there must be rebirth. Rebirth is a logical necessity and a spiritual fact of which we can have the experience.
reconnaissance ::: n. --> The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.
An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.
An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work.
refinement ::: n. --> The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
relations ::: logical or natural associations between two or more things; connections of one to another.
rhinological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to rhinology.
rhynchocephala ::: n. pl. --> An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.
sarcologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Sarcological
sarcological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to sarcology.
Savitri ::: Purani: “The word ‘Savitri’ is derived from the word ‘Savitru’ which in its turn is derived from the root ‘su’ = ‘to give birth to’. The word ‘Soma’ which indicates an ‘exhilarating drink’, symbolising spiritual ecstasy or delight, is also derived from the same root ‘su’. It links therefore the creation and the delight of creation. Savitru therefore, means the Divine Creator One who gives birth to or brings forth from himself into existence, the creation. In the Veda, Savita is the God of illumination, the God of Creation. Usually, he is represented by the material sun which also illuminates the solar system and is its creator and sustainer in the material sense. Savitri therefore would mean etymologically ‘some one descended from the Sun’, ‘one belonging to the Sun’, ‘an energy derived from the Sun, the Divine Creator’. In our poem, Savitri is the princess who embodies the Divine Grace descended in human birth to work out with the aspiring soul of humanity his divine destiny.”“Savitri“—An Approach and a Study
seasons ::: one of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.
seed-sounds ::: Sri Aurobindo: "My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths, — living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” *The Secret of the Veda
seismological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to seismology.
self-cconsistent ::: a. --> Consistent with one&
semeiological ::: a. --> Alt. of Semiologioal
semilogical ::: a. --> Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies.
semiological ::: --> Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.
semiography ::: n. --> A description of the signs of disease. ::: --> Alt. of Semiological
semiologioal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the science of signs, or the systematic use of signs; as, a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease; a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals.
semiology ::: n. --> The science or art of signs.
The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
The art of using signs in signaling. ::: --> Alt. of Semiological
sentence ::: n. --> Sense; meaning; significance.
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation
sequacious ::: a. --> Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
sequela ::: n. --> One who, or that which, follows.
An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
"Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements —- when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother - Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
“Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements—when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother—Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
sinological ::: a. --> Relating to the Chinese language or literature.
slavonian ::: a. --> Alt. of Slavonic ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav.
sociologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Sociological
sociological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.
sophistry ::: n. --> The art or process of reasoning; logic.
The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
sorbonist ::: n. --> A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
spectrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.
Sri Aurobindo: "Form is the basic means of manifestation and without it it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested?” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Mask is mentioned not twice but four times in this opening passage and it is purposely done to keep up the central connection of the idea running through the whole. The ambassadors wear this grey Mask, so your criticism cannot stand since there is no separate mask coming as part of a new idea but a very pointed return to the principal note indicating the identity of the influence throughout. It is not a random recurrence but a purposeful touch carrying a psychological meaning.” — 1948 Letters on Savitri*
Sri Aurobindo: "There is no necessity in the essential nature of mind, sense, life that they should be so limited: for the physical sense-organs are not the creators of sense-perceptions, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic sense; the nervous system and vital organs are not the creators of life"s action and reaction, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Life-force; the brain is not the creator of thought, but itself the creation, the instrument and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Mind. The necessity then is not absolute, but teleological; it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images of Conscious-Being to serve as the initial, dominating and determining fact of the world in which we live. It is not a fundamental law of being, but a constructive principle necessitated by the intention of the Spirit to evolve in a world of Matter.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: “There is no necessity in the essential nature of mind, sense, life that they should be so limited: for the physical sense-organs are not the creators of sense-perceptions, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic sense; the nervous system and vital organs are not the creators of life’s action and reaction, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Life-force; the brain is not the creator of thought, but itself the creation, the instrument and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Mind. The necessity then is not absolute, but teleological; it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images of Conscious-Being to serve as the initial, dominating and determining fact of the world in which we live. It is not a fundamental law of being, but a constructive principle necessitated by the intention of the Spirit to evolve in a world of Matter.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
“Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
stoichiological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to stoichiology.
studbook ::: n. --> A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.
syllogisms ::: logic. Forms of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
tabes ::: n. --> Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
tautological ::: a. --> Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression.
tautologic ::: a. --> Tautological.
tautologist ::: n. --> One who uses tautological words or phrases.
tautologous ::: a. --> Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
technicological ::: a. --> Technological; technical.
technological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to technology.
technologic ::: a. --> Technological.
Tehmi: “Convincing is used here in its more etymological sense—forcing upon it, conquering over—from ‘vanc’ to conquer.”
teleological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
teleology ::: n. --> The doctrine of the final causes of things
the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
teratological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.
teratoid ::: a. --> Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.
teratology ::: n. --> That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.
Affectation of sublimity; bombast.
terminological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to terminology.
(The authors also gave the example of Centaur). When such words are capitalised it refers to a divinity representing the species. Also with the word ‘Circean’ Nolini said: “Not merely a mythological story but a being representing universal forces.
"The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
the cosmological theory holding that the universe is expanding, based on the interpretation of the color shift in the spectra of all the galaxies as being the result of the Doppler effect and indicating that all galaxies are moving away from one another.
the method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.
theological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise.
theologic ::: a. --> Theological.
theologics ::: n. --> Theology.
theologize ::: v. t. --> To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology. ::: v. i. --> To frame a system of theology; to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.
theologue ::: n. --> A theologian.
A student in a theological seminary.
the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives. world-libido"s.
"The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement but fruits of the soul"s inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple.” *The Foundations of Indian Culture
“The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement but fruits of the soul’s inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple.” The Foundations of Indian Culture
“The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The Veda is thus the spiritual and psychological seed of Indian culture . . . ." The Renaissance in India
“The Veda is thus the spiritual and psychological seed of Indian culture . . . .“ The Renaissance in India
"This inner vision is one form of psychological experience; but the inner experience is not confined to that seeing; vision only opens, it does not embrace.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This inner vision is one form of psychological experience; but the inner experience is not confined to that seeing; vision only opens, it does not embrace.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
“To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote ’His anger climbed against me in a stream’, it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
topical ::: n. --> Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.
Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
toxicological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to toxicology.
transformation ::: n. --> The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
Change of one from of material into another, as in
tree ::: n. --> Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
trivium ::: n. --> The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
tropologic ::: a. --> Alt. of Tropological
tropological ::: a. --> Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
tropologize ::: v. t. --> To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
underworld ::: n. --> The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
The inferior part of mankind.
uniformism ::: n. --> The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
uniformitarian ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes. ::: n. --> One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the
universological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to universology.
unskillful ::: a. --> Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.
Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.
urrhodin ::: n. --> Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.
"Veda, then, is the creation of an age anterior to our intellectual philosophies. In that original epoch thought proceeded by other methods than those of our logical reasoning and speech accepted modes of expression which in our modern habits would be inadmissible. The wisest then depended on inner experience and the suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind"s ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner. Indian tradition has faithfully preserved this account of the origin of the Vedas. The Rishi was not the individual composer of the hymn, but the seer (drashtâ ) of an eternal truth and an impersonal knowledge. The language of Veda itself is shruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that came vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit for the impersonal knowledge.” The Secret of the Veda
“Veda, then, is the creation of an age anterior to our intellectual philosophies. In that original epoch thought proceeded by other methods than those of our logical reasoning and speech accepted modes of expression which in our modern habits would be inadmissible. The wisest then depended on inner experience and the suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind’s ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner. Indian tradition has faithfully preserved this account of the origin of the Vedas. The Rishi was not the individual composer of the hymn, but the seer (drashtâ ) of an eternal truth and an impersonal knowledge. The language of Veda itself is shruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that came vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit for the impersonal knowledge.” The Secret of the Veda
vegetality ::: n. --> The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
vivisection ::: n. --> The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
vulcanic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.
Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists.
waterspout ::: n. --> A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
weather ::: n. --> The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
Storm; tempest.
went ::: imp. --> of Go ::: --> of Wend
imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
Whatever verbal or ideative logic one may bring to support it, this way of seeing the universe explains nothing ; it only erects a mental formula of the inexplicable. It is only if you approach the Supreme through his double aspect of Sat and Chlt-Sbakri, double but inseparable, that the total truth of things can become manifest to the inner experience. The other side was developed by the Shakta Tantrics. The two together, the Vedantlc and the
witcraft ::: n. --> Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
The art of reasoning; logic.
ywis ::: adv. --> Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. Z () Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. /, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 273, 274.
zoological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.
zoologically ::: adv. --> In a zoological manner; according to the principles of zoology.
zoophytological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to zoophytology; as, zoophytological observations.
zumological ::: n. --> Alt. of Zumometer
zumometer ::: n. --> See Zymic, Zymological, etc.
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1:Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #KEYS
2:Truth is being insofar as it has been unveiled, and in its unveiling grasped. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic I, p. 43, #KEYS
3:It is vision that sees Truth, not logic. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #KEYS
4:In revealing itself, a being demonstrates its ever greater fullness and thus its ineliminable mystery. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic I.158, #KEYS
5:A dry and strong or even austere logic is not a key to Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #KEYS
6:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #KEYS
7:Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. ~ Richard P Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, #KEYS
8:Logic can serve any turn proposed to it by the mind's preferences. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #KEYS
9:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert, Dune Books, #KEYS
10:What is magic to our finite reason is the logic of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #KEYS
11:Took the mind captive in its own net;
His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
12:In spiritual matters mental logic easily blunders; intuition, faith, a plastic spiritual reason are here the only guides. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Guru, #KEYS
13:An abstract logic must always arrive, as the old systems arrived, at an infinite empty Negation or an infinite equally vacant Affirmation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Object of Knowledge, #KEYS
14:There is only one logic in spiritual things: when a demand is there for the Divine, a sincere call, it is bound one day to have its fulfilment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Call and the Capacity, #KEYS
15:Life develops in obedience to its own law and the pressure of forces and not according to the law and the logic of the self-conscious mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Drive towards Economic Centralisation, #KEYS
16:All created truth is groundless to the extent that it does not have its ground in itself, to the extent, in other words, that it breaks through its own ultimate ground into the depth of God's ultimately inexhaustible mystery. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic, Vol. 1:231, #KEYS
17:Though Necessity dons the garb of Chance,
Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps
The slow calm logic of Infinity's pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
18:A specialist of logic's hard machine
Imposed its rigid artifice on the soul;
An aide of the inventor intellect,
It cut Truth into manageable bits ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
19:I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith. ~ Norbert Wiener, #KEYS
20:It is not the 'I am' that is false, but what you take yourself to be. I can see, beyond the least shadow of doubt, that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Logic or no logic, I cannot deny the obvious. You are nothing that you are conscious of. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, #KEYS
21:The descent of the supramental is an inevitable necessity in the logic of things and is therefore sure. It is because people do not understand what the Supermind is or realise the significance of the emergence of consciousness in a world of inconscient matter that they are unable to realise this inevitability.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I,#KEYS
22:Imposing schemes of knowledge on the Vast
They clamped to syllogisms of finite thought
The free logic of an infinite Consciousness,
Grammared the hidden rhythms of Nature's dance,
Critiqued the plot of the drama of the worlds,
Made figure and nu ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
23:Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence - inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, #KEYS
24:When you only have sensations, perceptions, and impulses, the world is archaic. When you add the capacity for images and symbols, the world appears magical. When you add concepts, rules, and roles, the world becomes mythic. When formal-reflexive capacities emergy, the rational world comes into view. With vision-logic, the existential world stands forth. When the subtle emerges, the world becomes divine. When the causal emerges, the self becomes divine. When the nondual emerges, world and self are realized to be one Spirit.
~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, 119,#KEYS
25:The glory he had glimpsed must be his home. ||19.2||
A brighter heavenlier sun must soon illume
This dusk room with its dark internal stair,
The infant soul in its small nursery school
Mid objects meant for a lesson hardly learned
Outgrow its early grammar of intellect
And its imitation of Earth-Nature’s art,
Its earthly dialect to God-language change,
In living symbols study Reality
And learn the logic of the Infinite. ||19.3||
The Ideal must be Nature’s common truth,
The body illumined with the indwelling God,
The heart and mind feel one with all that is,
A conscious soul live in a conscious world. ||19.4|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5, || 19.2 - 19.4 ||,#KEYS
26:The truth is that Tolstoy, with his immense genius, with his colossal faith, with his vast fearlessness and vast knowledge of life, is deficient in one faculty and one faculty alone. He is not a mystic; and therefore he has a tendency to go mad. Men talk of the extravagances and frenzies that have been produced by mysticism; they are a mere drop in the bucket. In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. ...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. ~ G K Chesterton, Tolstoy, #KEYS
27:A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.... The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like live wire voodoo and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there. ~ William Gibson, Neuromancer, #KEYS
28:The most general science. Pythagoras is said to have called himself a lover of wisdom. But philosophy has been both the seeking of wisdom and the wisdom sought. Originally, the rational explanation of anything, the general principles under which all facts could be explained; in this sense, indistinguishable from science. Later, the science of the first principles of being; the presuppositions of ultimate reality. Now, popularly, private wisdom or consolation; technically, the science of sciences, the criticism and systematization or organization of all knowledge, drawn from empirical science, rational learning, common experience, or whatever. Philosophy includes metaphysics, or ontology and epistemology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, etc. (all of which see). ~ J.K.F., Dagoberts Dictionary of Philosophy, #KEYS
29:Likewise, looking deep within the mind, in the very most interior part of the self, when the mind becomes very, very quiet, and one listens very carefully, in that infinite silence, the soul begins to whisper, and its feather-soft voice takes one far beyond what the mind could ever imagine, beyond anything rationality could possibly tolerate, beyond anything logic can endure. In its gentle whisperings, there are the faintest hints of infinite love, glimmers of a life that time forgot, flashes of a bliss that must not be mentioned, an infinite intersection where the mysteries of eternity breathe life into mortal time, where suffering and pain have forgotten how to pronounce their own names, this secret quiet intersection of time and the very timeless, an intersection called the soul. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, p. 106., #KEYS
30:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. ~ George Orwell, 1984, #KEYS
31:The Seven Da Vincian Principles are:
Curiosità - An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
Dimostrazione - A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
Sensazione - The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience.
Sfumato (literally "Going up in Smoke") - A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
Arte/Scienza - The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "Whole-brain" thinking.
Corporalità - The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
Connessione - A recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. Systems thinking.
~ Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day,#KEYS
32:reading :::
50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered:
1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958)
2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
3. AJ Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
4. Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick (2011)
5. Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
6. Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1952)
7. Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
8. Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution (1911)
9. David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
10. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002)
11. Cicero - On Duties (44 BC)
12. Confucius - Analects (5th century BC)
13. Rene Descartes - Meditations (1641)
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fate (1860)
15. Epicurus - Letters (3rd century BC)
16. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things (1966)
17. Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (2005)
18. Sam Harris - Free Will (2012)
19. GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (1803)
20. Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927)
21. Heraclitus - Fragments#KEYS
33:When man's thoughts rise upon the wings of aspiration, when he pushes back the darkness with the strength of reason and logic, then indeed the builder is liberated from his dungeon and the light pours in, bathing him with life and power. This light enables us to seek more clearly the mystery of creation and to find with greater certainty our place in the Great Plan, for as man unfolds his bodies he gains talents with which he can explore the mysteries of Nature and search for the hidden workings of the Divine. Through these powers the Builder is liberated and his consciousness goes forth conquering and to conquer. These higher ideals, these spiritual concepts, these altruistic, philanthropic, educative applications of thought power glorify the Builder; for they give the power of expression and those who can express themselves are free. When man can mold his thoughts, his emotions, and his actions into faithful expressions of his highest ideals then liberty is his, for ignorance is the darkness of Chaos and knowledge is the light of Cosmos.
~ Manly P Hall,#KEYS
34:All advance in thought is made by collecting the greatest possible number of facts, classifying them, and grouping them.
The philologist, though perhaps he only speaks one language, has a much higher type of mind than the linguist who speaks twenty.
This Tree of Thought is exactly paralleled by the tree of nervous structure.
Very many people go about nowadays who are exceedingly "well-informed," but who have not the slightest idea of the meaning of the facts they know. They have not developed the necessary higher part of the brain. Induction is impossible to them.
This capacity for storing away facts is compatible with actual imbecility. Some imbeciles have been able to store their memories with more knowledge than perhaps any sane man could hope to acquire.
This is the great fault of modern education - a child is stuffed with facts, and no attempt is made to explain their connection and bearing. The result is that even the facts themselves are soon forgotten.
Any first-rate mind is insulted and irritated by such treatment, and any first-rate memory is in danger of being spoilt by it.
No two ideas have any real meaning until they are harmonized in a third, and the operation is only perfect when these ideas are contradictory. This is the essence of the Hegelian logic.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, The Cup,#KEYS
35:So too we can rise to a consciousness above and observe the various parts of our being, inner and outer, mental, vital and physical and the subconscient below all, and act upon one or other or the whole from that higher status. It is possible also to go down from that height or from any height into any of these lower states and take its limited light or its obscurity as our place of working while the rest that we are is either temporarily put away or put behind or else kept as a field of reference from which we can get support, sanction or light and influence or as a status into which we can ascend or recede and from it observe the inferior movements. Or we can plunge into trance, get within ourselves and be conscious there while all outward things are excluded; or we can go beyond even this inner awareness and lose ourselves in some deeper other consciousness or some high superconscience. There is also a pervading equal consciousness into which we can enter and see all ourselves with one enveloping glance or omnipresent awareness one and indivisible. All this which looks strange and abnormal or may seem fantastic to the surface reason acquainted only with our normal status of limited ignorance and its movements divided from our inner higher and total reality, becomes easily intelligible and admissible in the light of the larger reason and logic of the Infinite or by the admission of the greater illimitable powers of the Self, the Spirit in us which is of one essence with the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.2.02 #KEYS
36:Response To A Logician :::
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.
And sing this song in response to you.
Listen, pay heed to what I say,
forget your critique for a while.
The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing"
the radiance of the mind itself.
The best prize is what cannot be looked for
the priceless treasure of the mind itself.
The most nourishing food is "noneating"
the transcendent food of samadhi.
The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking"
the nectar of heartfelt compassion.
Oh, this self-realizing awareness
is beyond words and description!
The mind is not the world of children,
nor is it that of logicians.
Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"
you receive the highest initiation.
Perceiving the void of high and low,
you reach the sublime stage.
Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"
you follow the supreme path.
Knowing the end of birth and death,
the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.
Seeing the emptiness of reason,
supreme logic is perfected.
When you know that great and small are groundless,
you have entered the highest gateway.
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view.
Observing the truth of "nonobservation"
opens the way to meditating.
Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"
opens the way to perfect action.
When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"
you are approaching the highest fruition.
Ignorant are those who lack this truth:
arrogant teachers inflated by learning,
scholars bewitched by mere words,
and yogis seduced by prejudice.
For though they yearn for freedom,
they find only enslavement. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
37:middle vision logic or paradigmatic ::: (1:25) Cognition is described as middle-vision logic, or paradigmatic in that it is capable of co-ordinating the relations between systems of systems, unifying them into principled frameworks or paradigms. This is an operation on meta-systems and allows for the view described above, a view of human development itself. Self-sense at teal is called Autonomous or Strategist and is characterized by the emergent capacity to acknowledge and cope with inner conflicts in needs, ... and values. All of which are part of a multifacted and complex world. Teal sees our need for autonomy and autonomy itself as limited because emotional interdependence is inevitable. The contradictory aspects of self are weaved into an identity that is whole, integrated and commited to generating a fulfilling life.
Additionally, Teal allows individuals to link theory and practice, perceive dynamic systems interactions, recognize and strive for higher principles, understand the social construction of reality, handle paradox and complexity, create positive-sum games and seek feedback from others as a vital source for growth. Values embrace magnificence of existence, flexibility, spontaneioty, functionality, the integration of differences into interdependent systems and complimenting natural egalitarianism with natural ranking. Needs shift to self-actualization, and morality is in both terms of universal ethical principles and recognition of the developmental relativity of those universals. Teal is the first wave that is truly able to see the limitations of orange and green morality, it is able to uphold the paradox of universalism and relativism. Teal in its decision making process is able to see ... deep and surface features of morality and is able to take into consideration both those values when engaging in moral action. Currently Teal is quite rare, embraced by 2-5% of the north american and european population according to sociological research. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-53, Middle Vision Logic,#KEYS
38:higher mind or late vision logic ::: Even more rare, found stably in less than 1% of the population and even more emergent is the turquoise altitude.
Cognition at Turquoise is called late vision-logic or cross-paradigmatic and features the ability to connect meta-systems or paradigms, with other meta-systems. This is the realm of coordinating principles. Which are unified systems of systems of abstraction to other principles. ... Aurobindo indian sage and philosopher offers a more first-person account of turquoise which he called higher-mind, a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamism capable of formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming of all of which a spontaneous inherient knowledge.
Self-sense at turquoise is called Construct-aware and is the first stage of Cook-Greuter's extension of Loveigers work on ego-development. The Construct-aware stage sees individuals for the first time as exploring more and more complex thought-structures with awareness of the automatic nature of human map making and absurdities which unbridaled complexity and logical argumentation can lead. Individuals at this stage begin to see their ego as a central point of reference and therefore a limit to growth. They also struggle to balance unique self-expressions and their concurrent sense of importance, the imperical and intuitive knowledge that there is no fundamental subject-object separation and the budding awareness of self-identity as temporary which leads to a decreased ego-desire to create a stable self-identity. Turquoise individuals are keenly aware of the interplay between awareness, thought, action and effects. They seek personal and spiritual transformation and hold a complex matrix of self-identifications, the adequecy of which they increasingly call into question. Much of this already points to Turquoise values which embrace holistic and intuitive thinking and alignment to universal order in a conscious fashion.
Faith at Turquoise is called Universalising and can generate faith compositions in which conceptions of Ultimate Reality start to include all beings. Individuals at Turquoise faith dedicate themselves to transformation of present reality in the direction of transcendent actuality. Both of these are preludes to the coming of Third Tier. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-54, Higher Mind,#KEYS
39:(Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.)
34. "Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction's sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.
40. "The information of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service to point them out; for the doctrine of idols bears the same relation to the interpretation of nature as that of the confutation of sophisms does to common logic.
41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
42. "The idols of the den are those of each individual; for everybody (in addition to the errors common to the race of man) has his own individual den or cavern, which intercepts and corrupts the light of nature, either from his own peculiar and singular disposition, or from his education and intercourse with others, or from his reading, and the authority acquired by those whom he reverences and admires, or from the different impressions produced on the mind, as it happens to be preoccupied and predisposed, or equable and tranquil, and the like; so that the spirit of man (according to its several dispositions), is variable, confused, and, as it were, actuated by chance; and Heraclitus said well that men search for knowledge in lesser worlds, and not in the greater or common world.
43. "There are also idols formed by the reciprocal intercourse and society of man with man, which we call idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. Nor can the definitions and explanations with which learned men are wont to guard and protect themselves in some instances afford a complete remedy-words still manifestly force the understanding, throw everything into confusion, and lead mankind into vain and innumerable controversies and fallacies.
44. "Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men's minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre: for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements and axioms of sciences which have become inveterate by tradition, implicit credence, and neglect. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,#KEYS
40:There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement: one helps, the other hinders." Questions and Answers 1929 - 1931 (5 May 1929)
What is the true movement of the intellect?
What exactly do you understand by intellect? Is it a function of the mind or is it a part of the human being? How do you understand it?
A function of the mind.
A function of the mind? Then it is that part of the mind which deals with ideas; is that what you mean?
Not ideas, Mother.
Not ideas? What else, then?
Ideas, but...
There is a part of the mind which receives ideas, ideas that are formed in a higher mind. Still, I don't know, it is a question of definition and one must know what exactly you mean to say.
It is intellect that puts ideas in the form of thoughts, gathering and organising the thoughts at the same time. There are great ideas which lie beyond the ordinary human mentality, which can put on all possible forms. These great ideas tend to descend, they want to manifest themselves in precise forms. These precise forms are the thoughts; and generally it is this, I believe, that is meant by intellect: it is this that gives thought-form to the ideas.
And then, there is also the organisation of the thoughts among themselves. All that has to be put in a certain order, otherwise one becomes incoherent. And after that, there is the putting of these thoughts to use for action; that is still another movement.
To be able to say what the true movement is, one must know first of all which movement is being spoken about. You have a body, well, you don't expect your body to walk on its head or its hands nor to crawl flat on its belly nor indeed that the head should be down and the legs up in the air. You give to each limb a particular occupation which is its own. This appears to you quite natural because that is the habit; otherwise, the very little ones do not know what to do, neither with their legs nor with their hands nor with their heads; it is only little by little that they learn that. Well, it is the same thing with the mind's functions. You must know which part of the mind you are speaking about, what its own function is, and then only can you say what its true movement is and what is not its true movement. For example, for the part which has to receive the master ideas and change them into thought, its true movement is to be open to the master ideas, receive them and change them into as exact, as precise, as expressive a thought as possible. For the part of the mind which has the charge of organising all these thoughts among themselves so that they might form a coherent and classified whole, not a chaos, the true movement is just to make the classification according to a higher logic and in a thoroughly clear, precise and expressive order which may be serviceable each time a thought is referred to, so that one may know where to look for it and not put quite contradictory things together. There are people whose mind does not work like that; all the ideas that come into it, without their being even aware of what the idea is, are translated into confused thoughts which remain in a kind of inner chaos. I have known people who, from the philosophical point of view - although there is nothing philosophical in it - could put side by side the most contradictory things, like ideas of hierarchic order and at the same time ideas of the absolute independence of the individual and of anarchism, and both were accepted with equal sympathy, knocked against each other in the head in the midst of a wild disorder, and these people were not even aware of it!... You know the saying: "A question well put is three-fourths solved." So now, put your question. What do you want to speak about? I am stretching out a helping hand, you have only to catch it. What is it you are speaking about, what is it that you call intellect? Do you know the difference between an idea and a thought?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 107,#KEYS
41:The recurring beat that moments God in Time.
Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound,
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
The integer of the Spirit's perfect sum
That equates the unequal All to the equal One,
The single sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the Absolute.
There walled apart by its own innerness
In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky.
As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to soar into the Ineffable's reign:
A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world;
Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
It marries the earth to screened eternities.
Amid the many systems of the One
Made by an interpreting creative joy
Alone it points us to our journey back
Out of our long self-loss in Nature's deeps;
Planted on earth it holds in it all realms:
It is a brief compendium of the Vast.
This was the single stair to being's goal.
A summary of the stages of the spirit,
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies
Refashioned in our secret air of self
A subtle pattern of the universe.
It is within, below, without, above.
Acting upon this visible Nature's scheme
It wakens our earth-matter's heavy doze
To think and feel and to react to joy;
It models in us our diviner parts,
Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body's death with immortality's call:
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience
It labours towards a superconscient Light.
If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response:
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;
This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter's house.
The living symbol of these conscious planes,
Its influences and godheads of the unseen,
Its unthought logic of Reality's acts
Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
Have fixed our inner life's slow-scaled degrees.
Its steps are paces of the soul's return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity.
Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall.
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state;
Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness
Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove
The many-patterned ground of all we are.
An idol of self is our mortality.
Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
They consent to share her doom of birth and death;
They kindle partial gleams of the All and drive
Her blind laborious spirit to compose
A meagre image of the mighty Whole.
The calm and luminous Intimacy within
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
42:For instance, a popular game with California occultists-I do not know its inventor-involves a Magic Room, much like the Pleasure Dome discussed earlier except that this Magic Room contains an Omniscient Computer.
To play this game, you simply "astrally project" into the Magic Room. Do not ask what "astral projection" means, and do not assume it is metaphysical (and therefore either impossible, if you are a materialist, or very difficult, if you are a mystic). Just assume this is a gedankenexperiment, a "mind game." Project yourself, in imagination, into this Magic Room and visualize vividly the Omniscient Computer, using the details you need to make such a super-information-processor real to your fantasy. You do not need any knowledge of programming to handle this astral computer. It exists early in the next century; you are getting to use it by a species of time-travel, if that metaphor is amusing and helpful to you. It is so built that it responds immediately to human brain-waves, "reading" them and decoding their meaning. (Crude prototypes of such computers already exist.) So, when you are in this magic room, you can ask this Computer anything, just by thinking of what you want to know. It will read your thought, and project into your brain, by a laser ray, the correct answer.
There is one slight problem. The computer is very sensitive to all brain-waves. If you have any doubts, it registers them as negative commands, meaning "Do not answer my question." So, the way to use it is to start simply, with "easy" questions. Ask it to dig out of the archives the name of your second-grade teacher. (Almost everybody remembers the name of their first grade teacher-imprint vulnerability again-but that of the second grade teacher tends to get lost.)
When the computer has dug out the name of your second grade teacher, try it on a harder question, but not one that is too hard. It is very easy to sabotage this machine, but you don't want to sabotage it during these experiments. You want to see how well it can be made to perform.
It is wise to ask only one question at a time, since it requires concentration to keep this magic computer real on the field of your perception. Do not exhaust your capacities for imagination and visualization on your first trial runs.
After a few trivial experiments of the second-grade-teacher variety, you can try more interesting programs. Take a person toward whom you have negative feelings, such as anger, disappointment, feeling-of-betrayal, jealousy or whatever interferes with the smooth, tranquil operation of your own bio-computer. Ask the Magic Computer to explain that other person to you; to translate you into their reality-tunnel long enough for you to understand how events seem to them. Especially, ask how you seem to them.
This computer will do that job for you; but be prepared for some shocks which might be disagreeable at first. This super-brain can also perform exegesis on ideas that seem obscure, paradoxical or enigmatic to us. For instance, early experiments with this computer can very profitably turn on asking it to explain some of the propositions in this book which may seem inexplicable or perversely wrong-headed to you, such as "We are all greater artists than we realize" or "What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves" or "mind and its contents are functionally identical."
This computer is much more powerful and scientifically advanced than the rapture-machine in the neurosomatic circuit. It has total access to all the earlier, primitive circuits, and overrules any of them. That is, if you put a meta-programming instruction into this computer; it will relay it downward to the old circuits and cancel contradictory programs left over from the past. For instance, try feeding it on such meta-programming instructions as: 1. I am at cause over my body. 2. I am at cause over my imagination. 3.1 am at cause over my future. 4. My mind abounds with beauty and power. 5.1 like people, and people like me.
Remember that this computer is only a few decades ahead of present technology, so it cannot "understand" your commands if you harbor any doubts about them. Doubts tell it not to perform. Work always from what you can believe in, extending the area of belief only as results encourage you to try for more dramatic transformations of your past reality-tunnels.
This represents cybernetic consciousness; the programmer becoming self-programmer, self-metaprogrammer, meta-metaprogrammer, etc. Just as the emotional compulsions of the second circuit seem primitive, mechanical and, ultimately, silly to the neurosomatic consciousness, so, too, the reality maps of the third circuit become comic, relativistic, game-like to the metaprogrammer. "Whatever you say it is, it isn't, " Korzybski, the semanticist, repeated endlessly in his seminars, trying to make clear that third-circuit semantic maps are not the territories they represent; that we can always make maps of our maps, revisions of our revisions, meta-selves of our selves. "Neti, neti" (not that, not that), Hindu teachers traditionally say when asked what "God" is or what "Reality" is. Yogis, mathematicians and musicians seem more inclined to develop meta-programming consciousness than most of humanity. Korzybski even claimed that the use of mathematical scripts is an aid to developing this circuit, for as soon as you think of your mind as mind 1 , and the mind which contemplates that mind as mind2 and the mind which contemplates mind2 contemplating mind 1 as mind3, you are well on your way to meta-programming awareness. Alice in Wonderland is a masterful guide to the metaprogramming circuit (written by one of the founders of mathematical logic) and Aleister Crowley soberly urged its study upon all students of yoga. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising,#KEYS
43:
The whole question.
The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...
Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!
One cannot explain?
No.
It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?
I do not know.
Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!
This is the first step.
You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.
This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.
And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.
And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.
It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.
...
You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.
To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.
There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.
And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.
This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Life had replaced logic. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 2:Emotions are the curse of logic. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 3:Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 4:Logic won't change an emotion but action will. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 5:Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 6:The best defense against logic is ignorance. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 7:Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 8:Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 9:The real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 10:Charisma is the ability to influence without logic. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 11:When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 12:Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 13:There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 14:There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 15:Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 16:Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 17:Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 18:Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 19:Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 20:We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 21:Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 22:The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 23:Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 24:The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 25:Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 26:The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 27:Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 28:Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 29:Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 30:Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 31:It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 32:A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 33:Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 34:Oh dear,' says God, & 35:If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 36:You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 37:Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 38:The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 39:[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 40:An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 41:Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 42:The laws of logic do not prescribe the way our minds think; they prescribe the way our minds ought to think. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 43:Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 44:Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 45:In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 46:To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 47:We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 48:We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 49:Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 50:My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 51:Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 52:Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 53:All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 54:What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 55:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 56:there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 57: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. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 58:Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove 59:By no effort of logic or imagination can you change the & 60:Fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 61:The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 62:It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 63: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. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 64:When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 65:When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 66:Fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 67:The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 68:I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 69:I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 70:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 71:My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 72:The happening operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 73:Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 74:Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 75:The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 76:Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape? ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 77:There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 78:The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 79:Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do... just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 80:The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 81:But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 82:Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 83:People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 84:But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 85:Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 86:The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 87:Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 88:The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic). ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 89:Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 90:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 91:We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of scepticism. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 92:Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 93: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. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 94:If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 95:If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 96:Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 97:The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 98:I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing... .It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 99:Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 100:Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 101: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. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 102:In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 103:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 104:The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 105:Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 106:Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 107:The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 108:A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 109:Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 110:Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 111:The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him... . He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 112:A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 113:Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 114:My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 115:There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 116:Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 117:The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real! ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 118:Will of REALITY is Universal Energy. The Pure Logic of REALITY is Universal Law. The Being of REALITY is Universal Life. The Substance of REALITY is Universal Substance. The Infinite Mind of REALITY, in its Ideative and Volitional activities, is the Creative and Conative Power of the Universe. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 119:Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It's fine to gamble, as long as you're the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won't tell you. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove 120:Real courage is a mental skill, not an emotional one. Neurologically it means using the thinking neocortex part of your brain to override the emotional limbic impulses. In other words, you use your human intelligence, logic, and independent will to overcome the limitations you've inherited as an emotional mammal. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 121:& 122:When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 123:Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 124:Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 125:... for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 126:The quantum physicists found that, on a deep level, reality has to be understood as inherently paradoxical. This has huge implications. It means we can’t think about the deep mysteries of life using normal logic, because normal logic treats paradox as… well… illogical. We need a way of thinking that can embrace paradox. We need to think paralogically. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 127:When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ... Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 128:Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. ... . It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 129:Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 130:I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, & 131:Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 132:It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 133:poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 134:I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 135:People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 136:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne¬≠ss while telling carefully constructe¬≠d lies, to hold simultaneo¬≠usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict¬≠ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 137:We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 138:We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 139:I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' & 140:Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 141:Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence ‚Äî inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 142:Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 143:The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 144:Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable. ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; Therefore, the Negro is not a man. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 145:All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 146:The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 147:Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 148:I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 149:Courage is a way of thinking Real courage is a mental skill, not an emotional one. Neurologically it means using the thinking neocortex part of your brain to override the emotional limbic impulses. In other words, you use your human intelligence, logic, and independent will to overcome the limitations you've inherited as an emotional mammal. Hope is a way of thinking Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. Brené Brown Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. Martha Beck ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 150:Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 151:Spirit, considered in terms of Universal Mind, may be thought of as (1) manifesting Ideation and Will; (2) forming ideative and creative ideas, mental images, pictures, or appearances by the exercise of Ideation and Will; (3) manifesting Law and Order, or Pure Logic, in its ideative, creative activities and manifestations; (4) manifesting its ideative, creative activities and manifestations that it may express consciousness, as otherwise it would be unconscious save only in its consciousness of its own existence; (5) manifesting constant change in its ideative and creative activities that consciousness may be maintained; (6) manifesting subconscious activities and energies, in various degrees, as well as those of actual consciousness; and (7) manifesting the activities of consciousness in order that it may express its "lifeness," for consciousness is the "lifeness" of Life. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Logic is dull. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, #NFDB
2:Beware of logic. ~ Kiana Davenport, #NFDB
3:Is that cowboy logic? ~ Shelly Crane, #NFDB
4:Our hearts do not need logic. ~ Lois W, #NFDB
5:Does fuzzy logic tickle? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
6:There is no logic to grief. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
7:I'm impervious to logic. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
8:Eloquence is logic on fire. ~ Lyman Beecher, #NFDB
9:Fear is the enemy of logic. ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
10:I'm pure geek, pure logic. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
11:No man can outrun Logic or Time. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
12:A man of logic is a man of sin. ~ Mike Norton, #NFDB
13:Fear beats logic every time, ~ Benjamin Percy, #NFDB
14:Logic is the anatomy of thought. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
15:Logos is deeper than logic. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
16:In logic, there are no morals. ~ Rudolf Carnap, #NFDB
17:Life [had] replaced logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
18:Life [had] replaced logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
19:Emotions are the curse of logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
20:emerges from logic, not desire. ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
21:Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
22:Love trumps logic?" "Every time. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
23:beauty of life never lay in logic. ~ Smita Kaushik, #NFDB
24:I am beyond logic and rationality. ~ Imelda Marcos, #NFDB
25:trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
26:Logic is a feeble reed, friend. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
27:Logic is what the devil likes most. ~ Kelly Braffet, #NFDB
28:Logic is the last refuge of a coward. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
29:My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion. ~ Sting, #NFDB
30:I make decisions based on logic and fact. ~ E L James, #NFDB
31:Logic has made me hated in the world. ~ Peter Abelard, #NFDB
32:Logic is in the eye of the logician. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
33:Where logic reaches, religion leaves. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
34:you can’t use logic on human behavior. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
35:Instinct leads, logic does but follow. ~ William James, #NFDB
36:Logic doesn't apply to the real world. ~ Marvin Minsky, #NFDB
37:taxed to the limit the pitiless logic ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
38:That’s got to be some kind of penis logic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
39:Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
40:Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
41:Love trumps logic?”
“Every time, ~ Maria V Snyder,#NFDB
42:In the arena of logic, I fight unarmed. ~ Brian Clevinger, #NFDB
43:Logic has nothing to do with oppression. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
44:Politics is about realities, not logic. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
45:Religion is love; in no case is it logic. ~ Beatrice Webb, #NFDB
46:Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out ~ Amber Tamblyn, #NFDB
47:You have to play the logic of a character. ~ Emily Watson, #NFDB
48:Analogy is even slipperier than logic. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
49:The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
50:Art's supposed to build logic structures. ~ Lawrence Weiner, #NFDB
51:Logic can be patient, for it is eternal. ~ Oliver Heaviside, #NFDB
52:logic is useless in the face of obsession ~ Andrew Davidson, #NFDB
53:Our emotions are PURE, our logic is KORRUPT ~ Capital STEEZ, #NFDB
54:Though logic-choppers rule the town, ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
55:Forget logic...Logic doesn't know what you want. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
56:Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
57:Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
58:The best defense against logic is ignorance. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
59:There can never be surprises in logic. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
60:There's often a pretty clear logic behind madness. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
61:When in doubt, combine intuition and logic, ~ David Pandolfe, #NFDB
62:but then logic had never been my strong point. ~ Kerstin Gier, #NFDB
63:Killing people was something of a logic puzzle. ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
64:Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
65:Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
66:There's always some kind of hidden logic. ~ Christian Lacroix, #NFDB
67:Heart language is logic set on fire. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
68:I think Veblen had an interest in logic. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene, #NFDB
69:Logic is the art of making truth prevail. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
70:Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. ~ Leonard Nimoy, #NFDB
71:love and logic are the poorest of bedfellows. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
72:Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
73:Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
74:I don't really see art as structured by logic. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
75:Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
76:Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ~ Morris Kline, #NFDB
77:Logic will never change emotion or perception. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
78:No one is intimidated by logic, except logicians. ~ Paul Val ry, #NFDB
79:There's a weird logic that explains a common truth. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
80:Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
81:Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle! ~ Kurt Godel, #NFDB
82:Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
83:Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
84:you’re looking for logic in all the wrong places. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
85:Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32) ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
86:growth for growth’s sake is the logic of a cancer cell. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
87:Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
88:One needs to be Supernatural or Insane to defy Logic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
89:Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
90:There is no logic like the logic of the heart. ~ Charlotte Lennox, #NFDB
91:Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
92:Better to be without logic than without feeling. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
93:Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate. ~ Jonathan Alter, #NFDB
94:Logic is the art of convincing us some truth. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
95:Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
96:The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
97:The real universe is always one step behind logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
98:The real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
99:This dreamlike logic hung over the entire afternoon. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
100:Better to be without logic than without feeling. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
101:Charisma is the ability to influence without logic. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
102:Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB
103:Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
104:The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic. ~ Alban Berg, #NFDB
105:the ugly and alien logic of predestination. Poetry ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
106:A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and by John Stuart Mill ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
107:example of the confused mixture of logic and observation ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
108:For a woman who has hope, logic is the flimsiest foe. ~ Sarah Hepola, #NFDB
109:Forget logic, he says. Logic doesn’t know what you want. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
110:I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something. ~ Eugene Mirman, #NFDB
111:Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #NFDB
112:Logic will get you nowhere if it’s faith you’re after. ~ Shulem Deen, #NFDB
113:...on occasion logic does not win against emotions. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
114:With method and logic one can accomplish anything! ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
115:With method and logic one can accomplish anything. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
116:Conan's next move was the obvious one suggested by logic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
117:I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
118:Intuition is more important to discovery than logic. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
119:like rules that make sense, not rules without logic), ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
120:Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #NFDB
121:Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
122:Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ~ Frank O Hara, #NFDB
123:Search his car for the bomb! He's got a logic bomb! ~ Kevin D Mitnick, #NFDB
124:The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
125:The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
126:When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
127:By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
128:I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
129:I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
130:It is impossible to inject logic into an irrational mind. ~ Mira T Lee, #NFDB
131:Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
132:...logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
133:Since when was an emotional argument won by logic? ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
134:There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
135:A woman’s instinct, I always feel, supercedes logic. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
136:Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws. ~ James Siegel, #NFDB
137:Do you think chance is really just the logic of God? ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB
138:England is governed not by logic but by parliament. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
139:If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
140:If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
141:I’m expecting a miracle. Don’t taint it with logic. ~ Ofir Touche Gafla, #NFDB
142:In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins. ~ Jenna Black, #NFDB
143:Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic. ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
144:logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. ~ David Weber, #NFDB
145:Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
146:Reality can be only partially attacked by logic. ~ Friedrich D rrenmatt, #NFDB
147:The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic. ~ Dai Vernon, #NFDB
148:There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
149:a few rungs short in the ladder leading to logic land. ~ Christy Barritt, #NFDB
150:drowning in a sea of logic
this monstrous state of palsy ~ Sarah Kane,#NFDB
151:I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
152:Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think. ~ David Mumford, #NFDB
153:Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
154:Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. ~ Paul Smith, #NFDB
155:There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
156:There were many times when logic was of no comfort. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
157:We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
158:Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible. ~ Robert Fripp, #NFDB
159:Great salesmen know to... “Pitch With Logic, Sell On Emotion. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
160:I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
161:It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
162:Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
163:Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. ~ Jacques Hadamard, #NFDB
164:Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. ~ Pierre Bourdieu, #NFDB
165:Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
166:Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik, #NFDB
167:Did you fall off the logic truck and hit your head on stupid? ~ K F Breene, #NFDB
168:History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
169:In the absence of a competing intuition, logic prevails. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
170:It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic. ~ Joseph Goebbels, #NFDB
171:Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
172:logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
173:Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
174:Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
175:When in doubt, combine intuition and logic,” Lauren says. ~ David Pandolfe, #NFDB
176:Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
177:Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
178:Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
179:Sentimentality is the knife that cuts away logic and reason. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
180:Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
181:The linguist still believed in the superstition of logic, ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
182:was terrified, and logic meant nothing when you were scared. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
183:Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live. ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
184:Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
185:I hate your logic like I hate an empty wine goblet. To ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
186:Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
187:Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away. ~ Alexis Carrel, #NFDB
188:Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
189:The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
190:There is something more important than logic: imagination ~ Alfred Hitchcock, #NFDB
191:By the 1940s, common sense, logic, and science had parted ways. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
192:Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
193:God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. ~ Jamey Hecht, #NFDB
194:I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
195:Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity. ~ Jean Edward Smith, #NFDB
196:Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
197:Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
198:Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
199:My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
200:We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it. ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
201:Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
202:Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
203:Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
204:Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science. ~ Satoshi Kanazawa, #NFDB
205:The heart knows no logic, and rarely corresponds with the brain. ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
206:We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
207:His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
208:Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
209:If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
210:Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
211:Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
212:Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
213:Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
214:I don’t want logic right now. I just want to wallow in misery. ~ Ruth Ann Nordin, #NFDB
215:It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
216:Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
217:Reason as motive, or reason as logic, or reason as a way of life? ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
218:The logic of nationalism always flows downhill, toward the gutter. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
219:The thing is, the heart never listens to the brain’s logic, ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
220:We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
221:you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
222:You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic. ~ Herbert A Simon, #NFDB
223:And where there is no logic, one is left with personal opinion. ~ Michael Anderle, #NFDB
224:By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
225:Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
226:I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple, ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
227:The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
228:There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history. ~ Laura Kasischke, #NFDB
229:This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
230:War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
231:What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult? ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
232:What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult? ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
233:When I feel the beauty in words,
I am sensing the logic of heart. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
234:your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
235:But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
236:Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ~ Marian Anderson, #NFDB
237:Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ~ Marina Anderson, #NFDB
238:Kaz always spoke logic, but that didn't mean he always told truth. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
239:Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
240:Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
241:No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. ~ Osho, #NFDB
242:People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
243:The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. ~ Alexander Theroux, #NFDB
244:Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
245:War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
246:when you demand logic, you pay a hidden price: you destroy magic ~ Rory Sutherland, #NFDB
247:If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
248:Logic only gives a man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
249:Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? ~ Jason Schwartzman, #NFDB
250:Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion. ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
251:We rarely act from logic when facing the critical choices of our lives. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
252:What use is logic, when it takes you so far in the wrong direction? ~ Helene Wecker, #NFDB
253:when you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency. ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
254:deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
255:Error handling is important, but if it obscures logic, it’s wrong. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
256:I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you. ~ Jeffrey McDaniel,#NFDB
257:Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
258:Logic wasn't the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs. ~ David Drake, #NFDB
259:Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
260:May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
261:Netherling logic resides in the hazy border between sense and nonsense. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
262:When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. ~ Edith Hamilton, #NFDB
263:You couldn’t talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
264:I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
265:Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
266:Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now. ~ Lisa McMann, #NFDB
267:Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
268:Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
269:It's hard to follow a person's logic if you don't know how they feel. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
270:Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
271:Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
272:Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB
273:The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
274:The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
275:We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
276:I can tell by the way you park your car that I hate you. -Female logic ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
277:I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. ~ Fred Hoyle, #NFDB
278:Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
279:The “universe” is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
280:Use logic. Which way should we go first?” The world pivots and rumbles. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
281:but applying logic to love is like buttering a pig before you slaughter it. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
282:If thou really believe in one God,
irrationality is subset of thou logic. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
283:Logic, intelligence, and reason are satisfied, but the heart goes hungry. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
284:Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
285:Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
286:Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related. ~ Shannon Lee, #NFDB
287:True love defies logic: it is where one plus one equals infinity. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
288:But against all the odds, against even the laws of physics and logic, we did. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
289:But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
290:I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
291:It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
292:Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
293:Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
294:Love only has logic, only has meaning, when it takes the form of the cross. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
295:Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB
296:there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic. ~ Alwyn Hamilton, #NFDB
297:True love transcends logic, Freckles. It’s a blending of minds and souls. ~ Ednah Walters, #NFDB
298:a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic. ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
299:If we are looking to employ logic to infer a deity, we fall into absurdity. ~ Andrew Furst, #NFDB
300:It's Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don't try to understand it. Just roll with it. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
301:It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
302:It’s funny how you use logic in an argument and think it will persuade me. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
303:Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #NFDB
304:Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. ~ Leonhard Euler, #NFDB
305:Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. ~ Augustus De Morgan, #NFDB
306:The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
307:Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
308:Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
309:Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight ~ Josh Sundquist, #NFDB
310:Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
311:The fact Katherine is on my side is as much a surprise as her cool logic. ~ Justina Ireland, #NFDB
312:the human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol ~ Rory Sutherland, #NFDB
313:The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
314:The world moves to the tune of logic, even if it wears the face of chaos. ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
315:Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
316:fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight. ~ Josh Sundquist, #NFDB
317:Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions. ~ Steven E Landsburg, #NFDB
318:Love and hatred only deal with feelings; they do not understand (the) logic. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
319:Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
320:But I'm struggling to convince myself that logic had anything to do with it. ~ Meagan Spooner, #NFDB
321:I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.
Remember this. ~ Cecelia Ahern,#NFDB
322:Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
323:Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
324:Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. ~ Penelope Lively, #NFDB
325:The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
326:The logic in our minds had always been at odds with the logic of life itself ~ Sabahattin Ali, #NFDB
327:There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. ~ Alan Cooper, #NFDB
328:Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
329:I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic. ~ Bishop Nehru, #NFDB
330:Kiesewetter’s Logic: “Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
331:Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
332:Words would ruin things. They brought logic and reality into the game. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
333:If everything were explained by science and logic, what a dull world it would be. ~ Tess Oliver, #NFDB
334:...I guess when you believe the word of a complete liar, logic doesn't come into it. ~ A S King, #NFDB
335:I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them. ~ Denzel Washington, #NFDB
336:Logic is a game, came the memory of his father’s voice. Let’s see how you play ~ Marie Rutkoski, #NFDB
337:Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society. ~ Doug Stanhope, #NFDB
338:The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
339:To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
340:With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ~ Theodore White, #NFDB
341:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
342:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
343:All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up. ~ John D MacDonald, #NFDB
344:Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.) ~ Christopher Marlowe,#NFDB
345:If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
346:Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
347:Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
348:Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
349:You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
350:boolean logic is often too primitive to try and express what we're trying to express. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
351:Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~ Richard Chenevix Trench, #NFDB
352:logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
353:Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
354:This is publishing, Kip! Since when does logic have anything to do with it? ~ Reed Farrel Coleman, #NFDB
355:But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
356:Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
357:Fairytales had more logic holes than the average conversation with a three-year-old ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
358:Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
359:Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
360:Love trumps logic. And when it comes to you, love, I can be extremely irrational. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
361:Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
362:Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. ~ Susan George, #NFDB
363:You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
364:But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
365:faith doesn’t have to make sense. If it did, it wouldn’t be faith, it would be logic. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
366:I just use Logic, so I need to get more keyboards and gear. I need to get my Korg. ~ Ryan Hemsworth, #NFDB
367:Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself ~ Otto Weininger, #NFDB
368:Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
369:Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn’t doing too well here lately, was it? ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
370:You can only find truth with logic
if you have already found truth without it. ~ G K Chesterton,#NFDB
371:You can't argue with them, because they live by an entirely different logic. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
372:Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate ~ Brian Herbert, #NFDB
373:Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
374:Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. ~ Moss Hart, #NFDB
375:For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed... ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
376:It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
377:I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
378:part of a daydream’s enticement was the illusion that she was helpless before its logic ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
379:All deliberate change comes first from denying the logic that earlier gave you comfort. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
380:Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
381:Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
382:Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
383:Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. ~ Hermann Weyl, #NFDB
384:Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
385:Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide. ~ Rich Lowry, #NFDB
386:My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
387:The longest way round is the shortest way home”2 is the logic of both fable and of faith. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
388:The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really. ~ Paul Bettany, #NFDB
389:The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
390:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
391:You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. ~ Pierre Bonnard, #NFDB
392:Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
393:If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
394:Logic stays true, wherever you may go,
So logic never tells you where you live. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky,#NFDB
395:Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
396:Logic: yes, where is logic? Where is it, for instance, in the next moment of my story? ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
397:Wes gave her a blank stare. “Emily, don’t use convoluted female logic on me right now. ~ Jules Barnard, #NFDB
398:actual brains, which turn out be much more like sensory processors than logic machines. ~ George Gilder, #NFDB
399:Addict logic,” Yolanda said, not missing a beat. “Life viewed through resentment. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
400:A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
401:Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. ~ David Berlinski, #NFDB
402:Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
403:I swear stupidity is contagious and as hard as I try, logic doesn't seem to be the cure. ~ Jamie Canosa, #NFDB
404:Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
405:Logic no more explains how we think than grammar explains how we speak” [Minsky]. Logic ~ Ali Almossawi, #NFDB
406:Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
407:May I just say that religion and logic don't always go together, and then we can move on. ~ Kaje Harper, #NFDB
408:Myths dissected by logic and science die, and so does the culture that lived by them. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
409:The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
410:The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. ~ Julian Jaynes, #NFDB
411:We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
412:All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
413:a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
414:In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB
415:Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
416:Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
417:Mathematical logic is NOT the same as Philosophical "logic", but only few people know. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
418:People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
419:Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is. ~ Kristi Ann Hunter, #NFDB
420:You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
421:At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic. ~ Emile Durkheim, #NFDB
422:Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them. ~ Dennis Hopper, #NFDB
423:Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
424:In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
425:In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic. ~ Peter Sloterdijk, #NFDB
426:I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
427:Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
428:Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
429:Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. ~ Anish Kapoor, #NFDB
430:Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
431:Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
432:Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me. ~ Patricia A McKillip, #NFDB
433:There’s no room for logic when the heart is involved. To love is to lose all sense of reason. ~ Mia Asher, #NFDB
434:Blake sighed, shaking his head. “Abandon all logic, ye men who enter where women dwell. ~ Marie Ferrarella, #NFDB
435:How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein? ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
436:Lady friends help create jealousy, an emotion that humans respond to more powerfully than logic. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
437:Life isn't always about logic and reason-sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump ~ Julie James, #NFDB
438:Love defies logic and keeps on loving when it makes no sense because that is what love does. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
439:My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
440:The discrepancy between logic and memory suggests that we don’t always know what we want. ~ Barry Schwartz, #NFDB
441:There was no one as good as he at using the ovens of logic to bake agreeable results. ~ William T Vollmann, #NFDB
442:Black Swan logic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
443:If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one. ~ Friedrich Hebbel, #NFDB
444:I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it. ~ Daniel Bryan, #NFDB
445:I mean, if you’re coming to Vegas, why not stay in a pyramid?” “You can’t fault that logic, ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
446:It didn’t make sense, but it was proof that desire and logic were two very separate things. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
447:I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world. ~ Camille Henrot, #NFDB
448:Matthias was not fooled. Kaz always spoke logic, but that didn’t mean he always told truth. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
449:most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ~ Ernst Mayr, #NFDB
450:My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. ~ Odilon Redon, #NFDB
451:Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
452:Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. ~ Sol LeWitt, #NFDB
453:If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
454:It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
455:let’s remember this: love isn’t rational, but a combination of logic and emotional needs. ~ Nilofer Merchant, #NFDB
456:Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. ~ Osip Mandelstam, #NFDB
457:Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other. ~ Scott Berkun, #NFDB
458:Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. ~ Naveen Jain, #NFDB
459:The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ~ Paul Ricoeur, #NFDB
460:There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
461:You see, faith doesn’t have to make sense. If it did, it wouldn’t be faith, it would be logic. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
462:Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
463:I nodded slowly, not allowing myself to feel foolish. Logic had not been part of what I’d done. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
464:Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished. ~ Osip Mandelstam, #NFDB
465:Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic. ~ Eugenia Cheng, #NFDB
466:The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
467:To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed. ~ Samael Aun Weor, #NFDB
468:Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
469:Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
470:If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
471:I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
472:In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
473:Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic. ~ Alwyn Hamilton, #NFDB
474:Logic and people who subscribed to conspiracy theories were often strangers to each other. ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
475:No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. ~ Bernard Lonergan, #NFDB
476:When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. ~ George Polya, #NFDB
477:By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
478:Great decisions come from CEOs who display an elite mixture of intelligence, logic, and courage. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
479:I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win. ~ Michael Jai White, #NFDB
480:I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene, #NFDB
481:It is vision that sees Truth, not logic. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #NFDB
482:Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
483:Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
484:We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
485:What good is in dexterity of playing with logic when your weak soul retreats from difficulties? ~ Conn Iggulden, #NFDB
486:with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
487:By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. ~ David Quammen, #NFDB
488:Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
489:Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. ~ Roger Schank, #NFDB
490:It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
491:Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
492:There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
493:At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic. ~ Jay Samit, #NFDB
494:But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men. ~ Theodor W Adorno, #NFDB
495:Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
496:If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
497:Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
498:The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, #NFDB
499:There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
500:You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
501:Einstein also said that ‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.’” He ~ Ellery Adams, #NFDB
502:If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
503:Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ~ Claude Levi Strauss, #NFDB
504:My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. ~ Mario Testino, #NFDB
505:Our decisions are driven by feelings, sometimes (although not always) backed up by logic and reason. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
506:The logic of the ego is that if you try to do the difficult, only then are you proving the ego’s existence. ~ Osho, #NFDB
507:Dazzled by the luminosity of logic, she leans back, closing her eyes. She loses herself, she is lost. ~ Joseph Roth, #NFDB
508:Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene, #NFDB
509:Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
510:if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. ~ Graham Priest, #NFDB
511:If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
512:Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
513:Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
514:a priori knowledge such as mathematics or logic is general, whereas all experience is particular. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
515:Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
516:But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. ~ Gabriel Marcel, #NFDB
517:Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics. This ~ Ludwig von Mises, #NFDB
518:Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd)
That’s Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
519:I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. ~ James G Frazer, #NFDB
520:I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions. ~ Seymour Cray, #NFDB
521:Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981. ~ Marvin Minsky, #NFDB
522:Logic is simply the language of convenient rationalization in a pseudo-science-loving civilization. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
523:People often think computers are all about numbers, but they’re not. Computers are all about logic. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
524:The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it. ~ Charles Eisenstein, #NFDB
525:This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
526:If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
527:I scowled and pushed the thought aside. I was not about to let logic interfere with my crazy hopes. ~ J Leigh Bralick, #NFDB
528:I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic. ~ Hermann Goring, #NFDB
529:The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
530:The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country. ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
531:When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
532:Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
533:Logic will get you from point A to point B. Imagination and hard work will take you everywhere else. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
534:Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things. ~ Melissa Marr, #NFDB
535:People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
536:The former pair offered physics and logic; the latter offered primarily politics and fear plus a ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
537:The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
538:The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
539:There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
540:Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. ~ David Berlinski, #NFDB
541:Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
542:If you don’t want me to come then I’ll come,” she said. This sort of thing passes for logic among siblings. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
543:I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
544:Shakespeare, too, knew the logic of this when he said: “He who lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. ~ Joan Anderson, #NFDB
545:The extremist mind obliterates rational thought on contact. Logic is the biggest threat to their hatred. ~ Ella Summers, #NFDB
546:But since we have no priesthood, we have to make do with reason and logic as poor substitutes for authority. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
547:Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
548:Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical. ~ Navessa Allen, #NFDB
549:Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
550:Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain. ~ Bisco Hatori,#NFDB
551:There are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
552:But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold ~ Alan Furst, #NFDB
553:Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power? ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs, #NFDB
554:Don’t argue with a woman, Hap,” urges Corgi. “Not even a younger one. Their logic ain’t like ours.” Gunny ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
555:I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic. ~ Johan Cruijff, #NFDB
556:I want to screw him on the table and make him eat in my bed. Livia giggled out loud at her crazy logic. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
557:the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
558:The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
559:There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time. ~ Anthony Stafford Beer, #NFDB
560:When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
561:Freakonomics is out to dazzle you with facts; The Armchair Economist is out to dazzle you with logic. ~ Steven E Landsburg, #NFDB
562:If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. ~ Sidney Poitier, #NFDB
563:I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
564:Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense. ~ Donna Leon, #NFDB
565:Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. ~ Tryon Edwards, #NFDB
566:The decay of Logic results from an untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
567:If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself. ~ Joseph P Farrell, #NFDB
568:I think the heart wants what the heart wants and it totally ignores logic. What does your heart want, Devin? ~ Sydney Logan, #NFDB
569:It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ~ Christopher Lasch, #NFDB
570:One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination. ~ Sadguru, #NFDB
571:Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
572:The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. ~ Boris Gelfand, #NFDB
573:But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
574:God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
575:I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
576:If you don't want me to come then I'll come" she said. This sort of thing passes for logic among siblings. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
577:Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #NFDB
578:It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l ~ Ellen J Langer, #NFDB
579:One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
580:[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
581:An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
582:and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. . ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
583:I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. ~ Scarlett Thomas, #NFDB
584:One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
585:Remember if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
586:Remember, if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
587:That voice didn’t have logic on its side, but it didn’t need to. It had good lungs and just outscreamed logic. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
588:when a child is upset, logic often won’t work until we have responded to the right brain’s emotional needs. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
589:You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It’s in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
590:Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is--that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
591:For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used. ~ Aasif Mandvi, #NFDB
592:If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than your thoughts, your logic, or your intellect ~ Sadguru, #NFDB
593:I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! ~ Hilary Putnam, #NFDB
594:Just like an organic to be so binary in their logic. A thing can be a thing and also not a thing, you know. ~ Daniel Jos Older, #NFDB
595:Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
596:Simply said, much that is meaningful and worthwhile in life has little to do with logic, reason, or analysis. ~ Steven Forrest, #NFDB
597:The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. ~ Joost Meerloo, #NFDB
598:the “logic” of the facts—that is, as it sought to deduce laws or universals from the raw data of the particulars. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
599:There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos. ~ Ellery Queen, #NFDB
600:When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
601:He squeezed her hand back and made a sour face. “I hate when you use logic against me. It takes my knees out. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
602:In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic. ~ Samuel Logan Brengle, #NFDB
603:Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
604:No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity. ~ Walter Benjamin, #NFDB
605:Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
606:sometimes one has to drop logic and go with the instinct of the heart, even if it contradicts law. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
607:The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent. Shiva ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
608:To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
609:An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. ~ Ed Parker, #NFDB
610:As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
611:Both of them could trot out logic on a nice little leash, wearing a smart plaid jacket, when they wanted to. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
612:It was about then that I realized I was an extraordinarily complex person, because my logic typically made no sense. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
613:Reality and logic don’t matter to her. She needs this so badly, failure isn’t even in the realm of possibilities. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
614:We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
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615:What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
616:when a child is upset, logic often won’t work until we have responded to the right brain’s emotional needs. We ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
617:You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
618:Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
619:and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. . . . ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
620:Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
621:define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
622:I had no choice" with those words thousands died, not with bullets but with perverse logic and careful reasoning. ~ Tom Rob Smith, #NFDB
623:It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic. ~ Marty Neumeier, #NFDB
624:Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us. ~ Kamala Harris, #NFDB
625:Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
626:People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
627:...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner. ~ James Woods, #NFDB
628:There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle;
only something that's still beyond logic of the observer. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
629:To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ~ Charles A Lindbergh, #NFDB
630:Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
631:We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
632:I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
633:I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it. ~ Tallulah Bankhead, #NFDB
634:It didn't make any logical sense for her to be worried, although Ig knew that worry and logic rarely traveled together. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
635:Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
636:Regardless of Galileo’s logic, the highest of arts, I realized, is to uplift the spirit, whatever means one uses. ~ Susan Vreeland, #NFDB
637:We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
638:You remember me, and I’ll remember you, and that way we won’t be forgotten.” “That’s shit logic, Vic.” “It’s perfect. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
639:Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. ~ Norbert Wiener, #NFDB
640:Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others. ~ Ben Lerner, #NFDB
641:Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
642:It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
643:Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside. ~ Ludwig von Mises, #NFDB
644:Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
645:Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. ~ Alan Perlis, #NFDB
646:The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge. ~ Otto Weininger, #NFDB
647:The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature.
Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
648:Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
649:A dry and strong or even austere logic is not a key to Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #NFDB
650:Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
651:If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
652:If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand. ~ Paul Lansky, #NFDB
653:I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
654:Logic and loss aren't always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that's okay. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
655:Logic and loss aren’t always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
656:Love is reckless because true emotions are immune to logic. The most beautiful love stories are often the most tragic. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
657:our religious history has been too guilt-based and shame-based, and not enough of what some would call “vision logic, ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
658:The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it. ~ Nigel Lythgoe, #NFDB
659:With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
660:You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
661:Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
662:Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage, #NFDB
663:Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life. ~ IU I Manin, #NFDB
664:No matter which logic one adopts, one has to come to terms with the fact that we are living in a very peculiar cosmos. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
665:The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
666:We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking. ~ Stephen Baxter, #NFDB
667:Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
668:He was old enough to know you can’t make people love you. But I suppose when you’re wounded, logic ain’t logical. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
669:Logic founded on passions reverses the traditional sequence of reasoning and places the conclusion before the premises. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
670:The actions we take in life are often based on whether our internal logic and impulses lean toward fear or freedom. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
671:We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau, #NFDB
672:It’s the logic of two campers and the bear—you don’t need to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other camper. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
673:It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
674:Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic. ~ J Oswald Sanders, #NFDB
675:Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
676:The person who appeases Philosophy in matters of logic, is the person who got bankrupt in the first place in Science. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
677:There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all ~ Bjork, #NFDB
678:Took the mind captive in its own net;
His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
679:Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
680:Assumptions create barriers in your own mind. By taking shortcuts in logic, you wall yourself off from true enlightenment ~ Aleron Kong, #NFDB
681:Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
682:I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic. ~ Natascha McElhone, #NFDB
683:I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion. ~ Bishop Nehru, #NFDB
684:Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
685:Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
686:Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
687:My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. ~ Dave Hickey, #NFDB
688:Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
689:The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #NFDB
690:The world had a beautiful logic to it, hidden patterns that would reveal themselves if you could just learn to see them. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
691:And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
692:Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. ~ David Deutsch, #NFDB
693:I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. ~ Charles Hard Townes, #NFDB
694:It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
695:It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
696:I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you. ~ Kathleen Peacock, #NFDB
697:Life is the improbable thing. It is so fragile that it can be taken away at any second, without reason or logic or warning. ~ Zo Marriott, #NFDB
698:Logic can serve any turn proposed to it by the mind’s preferences. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art, Russell, Eddington, Jeans, #NFDB
699:Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
700:the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent. ~ Richard Florida, #NFDB
701:The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. ~ Eban Goodstein, #NFDB
702:The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space. ~ Christopher S Hyatt, #NFDB
703:Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
704:We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. ~ Apostolos Doxiadis, #NFDB
705:You ask how loving can happen—the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe. ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
706:You find people who just will not follow the logic everywhere. They don’t like the answer so they think wishing makes it so. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
707:Don’t come at me with logic,” I hissed at him. “We’re way past that. We’ve been through too much crap to be sensible. ~ Stacey Marie Brown, #NFDB
708:Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations. ~ William C Dement, #NFDB
709:I reason that I can take 36 hours of pretty much anything. This is willfully off-base logic with zero anecdotal evidence. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
710:Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
711:Facts have been buried to make way for feelings; a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic. ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
712:If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. ~ Jean Sibelius, #NFDB
713:I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs. ~ Gaetano Pesce, #NFDB
714:Logic and loss aren’t always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay. School ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
715:The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
716:There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB
717:To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
718:Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
719:You need to use the thread of logic, as best you can, to skillfully sew onto yourself everything that’s worth living for. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
720:No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support. ~ Ren Crevel, #NFDB
721:Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
722:You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.
Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
723:Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
724:Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce, #NFDB
725:I guess life hurt everybody. I didn't understand the logic of this thing we called living. Maybe I wasn't supposed to. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
726:My body hums in reply, and I fight the seductive lethargy threatening to consume both my anger, and my capacity for logic. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
727:Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
728:One absolutely crucial element in moving your brain from panic to logic is to put words to what you’re feeling at each stage. ~ Mark Goulston, #NFDB
729:Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see. You’re not limited by logic, the ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
730:The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic.
No more than sleep. ~ R Scott Bakker,#NFDB
731:The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
732:We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
733:You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ~ Alexander Herzen, #NFDB
734:Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
735:In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
736:Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley, #NFDB
737:The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. ~ James Clerk Maxwell, #NFDB
738:A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
739:But my mind is like a thin line; it travels badly. I go from thought to thought but not with logic, and I forget things [...] ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
740:Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
741:Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
742:He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
743:In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer to God. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
744:It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
745:Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart ~ Tammara Webber, #NFDB
746:Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to mock and ridicule. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
747:Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
748:The problem with logic,” Prime said, “is that sometimes you are forced to believe your own hypothesis, even if you don’t want ~ Brian McClellan, #NFDB
749:Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
750:Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic.” He ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
751:A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs. ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
752:A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites. ~ William Lane Craig, #NFDB
753:Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
754:For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
755:Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. ~ Francis Collins, #NFDB
756:Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
757:The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
758:You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity. ~ John Romero, #NFDB
759:An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. ~ Lion Feuchtwanger, #NFDB
760:Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing. ~ Christopher Nolan, #NFDB
761:He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of others. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
762:Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. ~ William Bernbach, #NFDB
763:Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. ~ Gerald Jampolsky, #NFDB
764:Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. ~ Edward Teller, #NFDB
765:The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics. ~ Maim nides, #NFDB
766:Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There’s a fundamental democratic logic to it.> ~ David Lagercrantz, #NFDB
767:WEALTH PRINCIPLE: When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
768:When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
769:Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
770:Don't talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule? ~ Penelope Fletcher, #NFDB
771:He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
772:My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
773:the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
774:The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. ~ Morris Raphael Cohen, #NFDB
775:The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. ~ William Godwin, #NFDB
776:...and I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one. ~ Erin Bowman, #NFDB
777:Fear defies logic. Information only goes so far. Even when armed with all the reasons why we should not be afraid, the fear remains. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
778:I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits. ~ Georgia Clark, #NFDB
779:Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
780:Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
781:There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
782:When everyone else follows the same logic, the public sphere is covered with signs of loyalty, and resistance becomes unthinkable. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
783:You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. —ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ~ Michiko Kakutani, #NFDB
784:You can't reason with them. They think logic is fallacy, a human invention. They think chaos is the one truth, the answer; salvation. ~ Haydn Wilks, #NFDB
785:In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini, #NFDB
786:It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
787:A classical concept in Hinduism has been that a true proposition has to be consistent with sruti, yukti (reason/logic) and anubhava. ~ Rajiv Malhotra, #NFDB
788:Chen Lian looked suspicious. Professor Cheng Lian inspired confidence. The logic of racism was no more complicated than that. ~ Jonas Jonasson, #NFDB
789:From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. ~ John N Gray, #NFDB
790:I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
791:Just because I'm pointing out the flaws in your logic is no reason to start accusing me of things. There is no shame in being afraid. ~ Cameron Dokey, #NFDB
792:Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
793:Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself. ~ Osman Bakar, #NFDB
794:Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
795:Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic. ~ Eden Robinson, #NFDB
796:There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69) ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
797:To have faith is to believe blindly, to demand no proofs, no evidence, no logic. To have faith is to believe without reason whatsoever. ~ Shulem Deen, #NFDB
798:Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
799:You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
800:Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
801:Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality. ~ Melissa Febos, #NFDB
802:From his father, Gansey had gotten a head for logic, an affection for research, and a trust fund the size of most state lotteries. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
803:I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
804:My dad invented the concept of Simon logic, and I can’t seem to outgrow it. It means wishful thinking supported by flimsy evidence. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
805:She had all his savage powers of logic. It made a person feel naive and childish for imagining there could be any good in the world at all. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
806:What is magic to our finite reason is the logic of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #NFDB
807:A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course! ~ Naomi Judd, #NFDB
808:All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
809:conclusions are a matter of extrapolated logic based on her best comprehension of the principles the universe has revealed to her. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
810:Drink," says the White Logic. "The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
811:I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything. ~ Jarod Kintz, #NFDB
812:I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may? ~ Simon Scarrow, #NFDB
813:If he drinks one hundred dollars a day--and he can--he's got one hundred days to drink. It's just an arithmetic operation, simple logic. ~ John O Brien, #NFDB
814:If that logic made any sense - which it doesn't, by the way - you, with your Volvo, would have been way more into Swedish House Maffia. ~ Morgan Matson, #NFDB
815:many people think that growth ought to be at least 3 or 4 percent per year. As noted, both history and logic show this to be illusory. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
816:Osama bin Laden is dead, but his fundamentalist ideology--and its cold logic of murder in God's name--arguably has broader reach than ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
817:When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
818:Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth. ~ Corinne Maier, #NFDB
819:Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
820:I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it. ~ Lawrence Summers, #NFDB
821:Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. ~ Rudolf Carnap, #NFDB
822:Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart ~ Tammara Webber,#NFDB
823:Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
824:The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
825:This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
826:Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. ~ Kenneth Rogoff, #NFDB
827:We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense. ~ Geert Wilders, #NFDB
828:What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
829:Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
830:Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content. ~ Carl Magnusson, #NFDB
831:Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
832:Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
833:One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic. ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
834:The victim’s submission to utter senselessness becomes the defeat of sense. His obeisance to absurdity becomes the refutation of logic. ~ Leonard Peikoff, #NFDB
835:The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
836:You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
837:[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
838:Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Martin Gardner, #NFDB
839:I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
840:Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and sincerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
841:You see, faith doesn’t have to make sense. If it did, it wouldn’t be faith, it would be logic. As wizards, faith is our most important tool. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
842:A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence. ~ Paul Kurtz, #NFDB
843:Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
844:Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting. ~ Elayne Boosler, #NFDB
845:For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
846:God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
847:I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
848:I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ~ Maya Lin, #NFDB
849:Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, #NFDB
850:Most people just don’t know any better because logic isn’t engrained into our culture. Convenience and greed are the staples of our society. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
851:"Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 6, #NFDB
852:Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
853:The problem with this socalled “market logic” is that the history of the telecommunications industry does not read like a free-market textbook. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
854:They never could entirely control preternaturals. It’s your pragmatism. Your kind cannot be persuaded by faith; pure logic must be applied. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
855:Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled. ~ Melanie Joy, #NFDB
856:What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. ~ Romare Bearden, #NFDB
857:But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. ~ James Branch Cabell,#NFDB
858:Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
859:Rude creatures emit slime and phosphorescence and move with flickerings of unclear limbs. The logic of their forms derives from nightmares. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
860:The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
861:And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier than killing them? ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
862:Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
863:Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.' 'I ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
864:Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic. ~ Mary Lydon Simonsen, #NFDB
865:Emotions are an indicator of evolved intelligence, an optimization of the system to shortcut logic circuits and reduce computational load. ~ William Hertling, #NFDB
866:It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
867:There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together. ~ Rafe Esquith, #NFDB
868:Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it! ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
869:fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors—which is the logic of narratives in general—over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
870:he felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
871:Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; morals grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
872:Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels? ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
873:We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
874:As an author and publisher I work in the entertainment business, which is an oxymoron. Entertainment runs on emotion, while business runs on logic. ~ Bob Mayer, #NFDB
875:Crime is common. Logic is rare.” Why? Logic is boring. We think we’ve already figured it out. In pushing past this preconception lies the challenge ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
876:Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation. ~ Charles Eisenstein, #NFDB
877:Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, #NFDB
878:Modern redistribution is built around a logic of rights and a principle of equal access to a certain number of goods deemed to be fundamental. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
879:The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. We ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
880:What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
881:And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
882:At some point you have to stop relying on logic to get you through life and live with your heart. You’ll be a whole lot happier if you do. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
883:I’d prefer a world with no identity politics. I’d prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing ~ Milo Yiannopoulos, #NFDB
884:I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music. ~ Stan Getz, #NFDB
885:I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
886:p hIllIp racked hIs braIn, wondering where the hell logic, caution and good sense had gone. Because, like Elvis, they had clearly left the building. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
887:What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less? ~ Miyuki Miyabe, #NFDB
888:When the universe seemed to be running on the fumes of burned logic, there was some comfort to be had in putting one tiny corner of it in order. ~ Andrew Hindle, #NFDB
889:You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
890:Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept “reality”, for ourselves? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
891:Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
892:Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
893:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
894:I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this. ~ Neel Mukherjee, #NFDB
895:I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
896:It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
897:Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time ~ Dick Francis, #NFDB
898:Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
899:She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel. ~ Vincent Canby, #NFDB
900:So the logic follows, the goal is not to hire people who simply have a skill set you need, the goal is to hire people who believe what you believe. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
901:The ideal is nothing more nor less than the culminating point of logic, even as the beautiful is nothing more nor less than the summit of the true. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
902:The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
903:there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
904:You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
905:A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
906:But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting; ~ J Jack Halberstam, #NFDB
907:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
908:Hate had begun to paralyze his thinking, he realized, to make little blind alleys of the roads that logic had pointed out to him in New York. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
909:In the word 'technology,' however, the suffix, 'logy' modifies the stem 'techno' so as to make it an abstract word meaning "the logic of building. ~ David Keirsey, #NFDB
910:It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride.”24 ~ Evan Thomas, #NFDB
911:No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the initial desire which is innate and incontrovertible. ~ John Burnside, #NFDB
912:pommel of his saddle and his helmet with a nose-piece, arms which might well prevent him from reaching any conclusions based on humanitarian logic, ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
913:The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better. ~ Susanna Moore, #NFDB
914:There is no escaping the gospel logic that all our thoughts, words, and deeds addressed to others are in a real way addressed to Christ himself. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
915:You didn’t fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
916:Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
917:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. — ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
918:Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation. ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
919: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. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
920:Logic was a story we told ourselves to keep from going completely insane in the face of all the impossible things reality threw at us on a daily basis ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
921:no one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other. According to this logic, Saramago considered ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
922:There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly. ~ Alfred Tarski, #NFDB
923:using the same logic it uses to determine racist and other extremist groups: the FRC promotes defamation and promulgates known falsehoods. ~ Michelangelo Signorile, #NFDB
924:Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4. ~ Dennis Lindley, #NFDB
925:Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. ~ Joseph A Schumpeter, #NFDB
926:Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield it or we fight it, but we cannot meet at half way. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
927:I stand by my logic though. I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for what sums it up for them. My word for love is Bree. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
928:I was in love, in lust, in something with him and all logic, all fact, all reality, none of that seemed to matter, not to my body and not to my heart ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
929:Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever. ~ David Oderberg, #NFDB
930:Logic was a story we told ourselves to keep from going completely insane in the face of all the impossible things reality threw at us on a daily basis. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
931:Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. ~ Richard P Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, #NFDB
932:The duality which you divine is the despair, the bankruptcy of logic and philosophy; it is the illusion which holds the human planetary system together. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
933:We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ~ Gene Roddenberry, #NFDB
934:What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
935:Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds. ~ Grace Hopper, #NFDB
936:intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
937:I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. ~ Darin Strauss, #NFDB
938:Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
939:Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
940:People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices. ~ Kameron Hurley, #NFDB
941:Quentin Crisp, the English fop, wit, and subject of Sting’s song “Englishman in New York,” said, “Charisma is the ability to influence without logic. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
942:She could feel the logic of mechanical parts in her fingertips; this came so naturally that she could only think that other people didn’t really try. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
943:The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. ~ George Will, #NFDB
944:There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this. ~ J A Redmerski, #NFDB
945:With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
946:Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ~ Paul Samuelson, #NFDB
947:Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway, ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
948:he was always trying to bring reasoned arguments to people who would never be reasonable, who in fact had no interest at all in facts or logic. ~ Benjamin Carter Hett, #NFDB
949:It was a brilliant train of pure cool logic; I welcomed the return of my giant brain and mentally patted myself on the head. Good boy, Dexter. Arf arf. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
950:I wasn’t ready to leave. Some masochistic shred of my being didn’t want to walk away from him yet, even though staying defied logic and common sense. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
951:Many beliefs often create heavy fogs so that the believer can’t see the realities! The only thing he needs is the cool winds of reason and logic! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
952:She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work there. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
953:The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
954:While the other world religions emphasized mystery and intuition, Christianity alone embraced reason and logic as the primary guide to religious truth. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
955:In our privatest mind,” he said, “there is only chaos and blur. We invented logic to beat back our creatural selves. We assert or deny. We follow M with N. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
956:Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
957:Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel ~ Ivan Turgenev, #NFDB
958:People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
959:For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects. ~ Gene Roddenberry, #NFDB
960:Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
961:Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. ~ Ivan Turgenev, #NFDB
962:No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic. ~ George Henry Lewes, #NFDB
963:Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
964:At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided cliches, as amusing as pottery ducks on suburban walls. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
965:Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control. ~ Joseph Sobran, #NFDB
966:fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
967:From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
968:It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic. ~ Jeremy Rifkin, #NFDB
969:It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
970:Logic, Your Honour, could be a set of rules based on one’s upbringing or schooling or one’s wrong set of beliefs, and hence not necessarily absolute.’ Don ~ Vish Dhamija, #NFDB
971:Love is not the absence of logic
but logic reexamined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart."- Tammara Webber ~ Tammara Webber,#NFDB
972:Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden. ~ Paul Samuelson, #NFDB
973:simply because his mind aligned perfectly with the nexus of logic and technology (which it did) but because, he says, “I really wanted to change the world. ~ Steven Levy, #NFDB
974:The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines. ~ Felix Frankfurter, #NFDB
975:The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
976:To touch him in ways he'd never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
977:Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
978:You don’t figure grief out, Bianca. You go through it. Grief is a mess that you can’t clean up all at once. It takes time and patience, not logic and fact. ~ Katie Cross, #NFDB
979:associational logic,” a muscle rarely worked by prose: its “occlusion, or difficulty,” she wrote, “healing me, forcing me to privilege my heart, my intuition. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
980:For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors—which is the logic of narratives in general—over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
981:Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
982: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. ~ Neil Armstrong, #NFDB
983:In spiritual matters mental logic easily blunders; intuition, faith, a plastic spiritual reason are here the only guides. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Guru, #NFDB
984:I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
985:It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
986:It takes lots of hands to do farm work, so farmers have large families. But they want boys—usually three at the minimum. Their logic is heartbreaking. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
987:Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
988:So the bioweapon narrative was easy to quash, at least if you were among the small minority of Miasma users who actually cared about logic and evidence. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
989:Yes, well. It’s hard to follow a person’s logic if you don’t know how they feel. And you’re wrong. Perry does talk. Watch him. You’ll see he says plenty. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
990:You’re not upset about that fate?
“I can’t change it, right?”
He paused. Pragmatic. Unexpectedly so. I didn’t expect logic from a wild witch like you. ~ Katie Cross,#NFDB
991:Cinder made a special trip to Paris for this girl?"
"My logic aptitude suggests this is a possibility."
"What else do we know about this ... Scarlet? ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
992:Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
993:Everything had been a battle of wills, an opportunity for him to lecture her, another reason for him to correct her faulty logic or lack of information. ~ Stephen McCauley, #NFDB
994:God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
995:Jemma got up and perched on the arm of Isidore’s chair. “Marriage is a great destroyer of logic, but I do think it’s a benefit to begin with a sane husband. ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
996:Just because we haven’t seen a dragon, doesn’t mean dragons don’t exist.” Louise stated the logic of why the scientists were reluctant to commit to a theory. ~ Wen Spencer, #NFDB
997:One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
998:Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
999:...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
1000:The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology is free to run wild. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1001:An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
1002:An inability, or reduced ability, to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
1003:In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. ~ Robert McKee, #NFDB
1004:...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone. ~ Julian Huxley, #NFDB
1005:Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1006:Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
1007:So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B ~ Daniel Wallace, #NFDB
1008:THE MISCONCEPTION: You choose to accept or refuse an offer based on logic. THE TRUTH: When it comes to making a deal, you base your decision on your status. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
1009:We’re now getting the first glimpses of the vastness of inner space. This internal, hidden, intimate cosmos commands its own goals, imperatives, and logic. ~ David Eagleman, #NFDB
1010:Every psychological explanation comes sooner or later to lean either on biology or on logic (or on sociology, but this in turn leads to the same alternatives). ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1011:How I fevered to study the seven liberal arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. ~ Mary Sharratt, #NFDB
1012:If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one copy. Designs without duplication tend to be easy to change. ~ Kent Beck, #NFDB
1013:I had a logic teacher who always said you should never discount an answer simply because you didn't expect the data to lead you there. And boy, did I love logic. ~ Angie Fox, #NFDB
1014:In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
1015:Life was what you determined it to be; regardless of where fate put you, logic and free will meant you could make your cabbage patch anything the fuck you wanted. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1016:Magic, she was discovering, was like poetry. Once you understood the logic, the meter, the rhyme behind it, you could embellish upon it and make it your own. On ~ Elise Kova, #NFDB
1017: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. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1018:software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless “rituals” whose steps are “encoded in the logic of web pages.”33 ~ Nicholas Carr, #NFDB
1019:This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1020:What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts. ~ Naum Gabo, #NFDB
1021:Where logic seems apparent: in bullfrogs or Black-Eyed Susans bird migrations patterns on the skin of newt or carp we go too far imagining a god of purposes. ~ John Burnside, #NFDB
1022:Do you truly believe that you can defeat the plague? I believe that I must try or we are all lost, anyway. A sombre thought, but the logic is undeniable. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
1023:Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged. ~ Hanya Yanagihara, #NFDB
1024:Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1025:I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB
1026:None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine. ~ Donald Evans, #NFDB
1027:One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1028:Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition ~ Henry Mintzberg, #NFDB
1029:The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1030:When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1031:Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1032:Children are capable of grasping complex ideas long before most people give them credit for, wrapping them in a soothing layer of nonsense and illogical logic ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1033:In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
1034:Jung's defense of mythos was to argue that it is the best possible way of knowing the core of reality, that cannot be disclosed by science, logic or rationality. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
1035:Of course it was irrational. Of course it was stupid. Of course it was impossible. But when your heart’s so deeply involved, logic flies straight out the window. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
1036:People are moved more by stories than by logic. Ease listeners into the new or unknown by building the logic of your model into a compelling narrative. ~ Alexander Osterwalder, #NFDB
1037:person says to you, “How do you do?” he will be taken aback if you reply, with impeccable logic, “How do I do what?” The complexities of the English language are ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1038:Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument. ~ Jay Heinrichs, #NFDB
1039:The thing is, the heart never listens to the brain’s logic, Mr. Russell.” He nudged me in the side with an all-knowing hitch in his voice. “It just feels. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
1040:Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would be psychologically human. ~ Arkady Strugatsky, #NFDB
1041:Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1042:Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being rule by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1043:If we switched to Markov networks, we could use any logical formula as a template for Markov network features, and that would unify logic and graphical models. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
1044:If you cling too much to logic you will never be able to be part of the living process that this existence is. Life is more than logic: life is paradox, life is mystery. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1045:[An] explanation that was simply in the best traditions of female logic:
"I don't know why, but I want it, so you need to give me that expensive thing. ~ Michael Atamanov,#NFDB
1046:A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1047:Fear and rage are not very different when you think about it, two hungry animals that often hunt the same prey—emotion—and hide from the same predator—logic. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1048:HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT REASONABLE creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1049:It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. ~ Noto, #NFDB
1050:Like many profound and unexamined fears, this one breeds irrationality, causing many people to suspend all logic and refuse to participate in rational discourse. ~ Samuel Thayer, #NFDB
1051:Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful. ~ C E Murphy, #NFDB
1052:Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1053:People want to believe that they make decisions rationally, logically — but in reality, they make them emotionally first. Then they defend those decisions with logic ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1054:Piaget’s work shows that our concepts of logic, space, time, number, quantity, etc., are not given readymade as Kant thought, but undergo a process of development. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1055:The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
1056:When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1057:Antifragile shows how people confuse risk of ruin with variations and fluctuations—a simplification that violates a deeper, more rigorous logic of things. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1058:In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
1059:It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. ~ Christopher Lasch, #NFDB
1060:That’s how science works. We don’t “prove” results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence. ~ Sean Carroll, #NFDB
1061:The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness. ~ Drunvalo Melchizedek, #NFDB
1062:What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water. ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
1063: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. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1064:Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ~ Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Studies., #NFDB
1065:If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic. ~ Alan Keyes, #NFDB
1066:I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
1067:Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
1068:Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
1069:But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it. ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
1070:I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1071:I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky- that's all it is. It's not a matter of intellect or logic, it's loving with one's inside, with one's stomach. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1072:Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject. ~ Sir William Hamilton 9th Baronet, #NFDB
1073:Sense and logic clearly weren’t one of Errik’s strengths. A monkey with a math problem, all dragging knuckles and grunts, he clenched his fists and dug his heels in. ~ Tim Marquitz, #NFDB
1074:The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to ‘she was not she’, which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1075:Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic. ~ Tim Noakes, #NFDB
1076:Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān. ~ Al Farabi, #NFDB
1077:All numbers in logic must be capable of justification. Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic. There are no pre-eminent numbers. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1078:I am a dreamer. I do a lot of things which people consider illogical but for me there is a very clear logic to what I do and why I do. I live by my convictions.” The ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1079:I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
1080:I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1081:Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
1082:Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic. ~ Eugenia Cheng, "How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths" (2015)., #NFDB
1083:The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
1084:The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1085:When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason. ~ Thucydides, #NFDB
1086:You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic. ~ Mark Rippetoe, #NFDB
1087:And that's the thing, I think... the real reason I'm not that weirded out by you two. It goes against all sound logic, but somehow, you two together... it just works. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1088:I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view. ~ Karl Popper, #NFDB
1089:Pure logic suggests that if the entity in the coffin is not fundamentally the person you used to know, you cannot miss him. Because that's not a loss; that's a change. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1090:The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this." ~ Chuck D, #NFDB
1091:The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1092:The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn’t the kind of logic you’d use around midday. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1093:This sort of intuition can only occur when you disengage the logic circuits from the problem and give the deep mind the opportunity to cook up the solution. The ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB
1094:Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it. ~ Baratunde R Thurston, #NFDB
1095:Unfortunately, the two camps often talk past each other. They speak different languages: machine learning speaks probability, and knowledge engineering speaks logic. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
1096:We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word? ~ Sharon Stone, #NFDB
1097:when a person says to you, “How do you do?” he will be taken aback if you reply, with impeccable logic, “How do I do what?” The complexities of the English language are ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1098:When man has reached the periphery of the spiderweb of his own reason and logic, he can find the ropes of revelation upon which he can climb upward forever and ever. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1099:Why is Mommy crying?” the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. “Because you’re an asshole,” barks back the father with exasperated logic. ~ John Waters, #NFDB
1100:According to the current logic of online misogyny a woman’s right to self-expression is less important by far than a man’s right to punish her for that self-expression. ~ Laurie Penny, #NFDB
1101:Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1102:Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1103:A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. ~ Moss Hart, #NFDB
1104:I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless -- and it goes against all the dictates of logic to suppose that you made me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1105:If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof. ~ G H Hardy, #NFDB
1106:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1107:Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. ~ William Stanley Jevons, #NFDB
1108:Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation. ~ Joseph Stiglitz, #NFDB
1109:She was so sick of hearing that excuse. Bullying was tolerated because bullying made its victims stronger, determined to fight back ... she loathed that logic. ~ Christopher G Nuttall, #NFDB
1110:Sometimes letting things as they are, leaves us in a better frame of mind. Science and logic are all good for human sustenance in the world, but the life beyond needs faith. ~ Praveer, #NFDB
1111:This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1112:You’re not clinging to logic because it’s better, you’re clinging because it’s safer. The problem isn’t that your girl’s not thinking straight, it’s that you’re scared. ~ Lauren Layne, #NFDB
1113:I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1114:If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought,
who have memories and imagination in their mind.
If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
1115:I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that's how it starts with a lot of criminals... ~ Catherine Steadman, #NFDB
1116:In short, Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag full of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1117:I suppose we’re all just an amalgamation of our childhood fears and instincts; no matter what our brains know, sometimes old fear runs much deeper than logic can dam. ~ Simon Strantzas, #NFDB
1118:I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1119:Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. ~ William E Gladstone, #NFDB
1120:The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
1121:The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
1122:This time I could not argue with her logic. Despite my fervour to rush into the woods and save my children, I had to proceed cautiously. I could not mess up this rescue. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1123:Tomorrow Loophole: As part of my investigation of First Steps, I’d identified “tomorrow logic.” Now doesn’t matter, because we’re going to follow good habits tomorrow. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1124:we must make believe that we are not what we are—contradictory beings whose continuance only worsens our plight as mutants who embody the contorted logic of a paradox. ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
1125:And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1126:Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone. ~ Seth King, #NFDB
1127:Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite is true. - Natasha ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1128:O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation ~ Jeremy Bentham, #NFDB
1129:The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ~ Eva Figes, #NFDB
1130:The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1131:But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1132:Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1133:Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1134:For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. ~ John Crowe Ransom, #NFDB
1135:In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1136:I thought of Andrew Martin kissing her. This was what humans did. They kissed. Like so many human things, it made no sense. Or maybe, if you tried it, the logic would unfold. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1137:It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1138:The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love. ~ Antonin Artaud, #NFDB
1139:The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1140:The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
1141:There is no such thing as a perfect husband. Or a perfect wife. Or a perfect marriage. Sometimes love supersedes logic, and the best thing to do is just follow your heart. ~ Tracy Brogan, #NFDB
1142:Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1143:[H]e stooped down and wrote an answer to my question, Is love even real?
He wrote: Just because it defies logic and comprehension, that doesn't mean it's not real. ~ Preston Norton,#NFDB
1144:I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility. ~ Fred Hoyle, #NFDB
1145: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. ~ Marie Corelli, #NFDB
1146:the practical utility of Formal Logic to-day lies not so much in the establishment of positive conclusions as in the prompt detection and exposure of invalid inference. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1147:There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. ~ Justin Theroux, #NFDB
1148:... things just happen. It was a pathetic logic, but it was, at its core, true. Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
1149:Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ~ Alexis Carrel, #NFDB
1150:With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1151:All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1152:Baley’s lips twitched. He had guessed that in some ways robotic logic must fall short and he was convinced of it now. As the roboticist had said: Logical but not reasonable. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1153:For a smart person to argue with a dumb person, they have to dumb down their logic on the fly, while the dumb person thinks in dumb logic naturally, giving them an advantage. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
1154:I’d prefer a world with no identity politics. I’d prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing theories about “oppression. ~ Milo Yiannopoulos, #NFDB
1155:I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. ~ Laura Marling, #NFDB
1156:Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1157:In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture). ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1158:I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my results are so disgusting! ~ Gregory Chaitin, #NFDB
1159:Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1160:Prohibition, Bourgois explains in his writing, creates a system in which the most insane and sadistic violence has a sane and functional logic. It is required. It is rewarded. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
1161:The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1162:We defeat emotions with logic, or at least that’s the idea. Logic is questions and statements. With enough of them, we get to root causes (which are always easier to deal with). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1163:We tend to think of emotion and logic as two distinct, mutually exclusive domains. Not Steve. From the beginning, when making decisions, passion was a key part of his calculus. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1164:When you’re in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It’s a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1165:You know, Marlow, you’re a real asshole.” Jade paused and ran his thumb across his bottom lip. “He gets himself killed breaking cover and I’m the asshole. Astonishing logic. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
1166:Bits also play a part in logic, that strange blend of philosophy and mathematics for which a primary goal is to determine whether certain statements are true or false. True ~ Charles Petzold, #NFDB
1167:Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believes in ice – i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn’t the place for it. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1168:Do you really think so? I thought philosophers were supposed to be logical?’ Didactylos shrugged. ‘Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1169:Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1170:Even when the underlying motive of purchase is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent logic and good sense ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1171:I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1172:It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception. ~ Douglas Hofstadter, #NFDB
1173:It truly disturbs me how little some leaders care. Few lobby for food stamps, because the people who need them aren't in positions of power. The logic is sad and twisted. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand, #NFDB
1174:Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
1175:Then came the Butlerian Jihad—two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: “Man may not be replaced.” Those ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1176:Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1177:As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it. ~ Jim Ross, #NFDB
1178:If the sole source of one's knowledge or assurance of the truth of the Lord's work comes from reason, or logic, or persuasive argument,...it is not a testimony of the gospel ~ Bruce R McConkie, #NFDB
1179:Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that. ~ Paul Bettany, #NFDB
1180:the left hemisphere is responsible for sequence, logic, speech, analysis and numeracy; while the right is involved with imagination, colour, rhythm, dimension and spatial awareness ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1181:There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person. ~ Judd Apatow, #NFDB
1182:The Word is formed only when it is performed; it exists in the world only when it is lived out by a subject who dwells fully in the world. Is this not the logic of incarnation? ~ Peter Rollins, #NFDB
1183:Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?"
"You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her ~ Josephine Angelini,#NFDB
1184:In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ~ Garrett Hardin, #NFDB
1185:It's got nothing to do with logic: I just feel it. For example, when I'm really close to you like this, I'm not the least bit scared. Nothing dark or evil could ever tempt me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1186:I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
1187:Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains. ~ Jane Gardam, #NFDB
1188:Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1189:She needed to think logically because logic said she should send this man packing and find someone else to help her out…although her heart said to get up and fall into his arms. ~ Susan Sleeman, #NFDB
1190:... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
1191:the left hemisphere is responsible for sequence, logic, speech, analysis and numeracy; while the right is involved with imagination, colour, rhythm, dimension and spatial awareness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1192:The logic of the suggestion fitted gradually into Abe’s pitch – he grew rather enthusiastic about being cared for, or rather about prolonging his state of irresponsibility. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1193:The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ~ Noto, #NFDB
1194:The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1195:The unconscious helps by communicating things to us, or making figurative allusions. It has other ways, too, of informing us of things which by all logic we could not possibly know. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1196:We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ~ Gene Roddenberry, Free Inquiry (autumn, 1992), #NFDB
1197:When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1198:As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women? ~ Richard Yates, #NFDB
1199:I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1200:In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place. ~ Letitia Baldrige, #NFDB
1201:Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1202:The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P]. ~ John Allen Paulos, #NFDB
1203:thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls. We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1204:We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life? ~ Joseph O Neill, #NFDB
1205:All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed. ~ Morris Raphael Cohen, #NFDB
1206:As logic went, it was pretty impressive. I could tell because Mum's mouth was working like someone feeling a loose tooth, but she couldn't come up with any reason why Lily was wrong. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1207:He knew how to use the kind of logic that moved the great majority. Nor did it even have to be logic: it had only to appear so, as long as it aroused the feelings of the masses. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1208:I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think. ~ Laura Marling, #NFDB
1209:Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #NFDB
1210:Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. ~ William Stanley Jevons, #NFDB
1211:people choose between two ways of coming to conclusions or judgments: by thinking, using an impersonal process of logic; and by feeling, deciding what something means to them. ~ Tom Butler Bowdon, #NFDB
1212:The logic of incrementalism is that by asking for a little bit at a time and winning a little bit at a time, you can eventually achieve the full complement of your goals. ~ Michelangelo Signorile, #NFDB
1213:Time-travel is possible, but no person will ever manage to kill his past self. Godel laughed his laugh then, and concluded, The a priori is greatly neglected. Logic is very powerful. ~ Kurt G del, #NFDB
1214:Western man established the initial base for an argument, defined his terms, demolished his opponent with irrefutable logic or was demolished by his own ineptitude of reasoning. ~ Taylor Caldwell, #NFDB
1215:will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
1216:Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
1217:I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic. ~ Gore Verbinski, #NFDB
1218:I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
1219:It is much easier to be fired for being illogical than it is for being unimaginative. The fatal issue is that logic always gets you to exactly the same place as your competitors. ~ Rory Sutherland, #NFDB
1220:Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. —Osho ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1221:So she sees if she can drive him off. The MacCarrolls have that little perverse streak in them. She’d rather break her own heart than have it broken. There’s an Irish logic to it. ~ Niall Williams, #NFDB
1222:Th e Dadaists, an artistic movement who began dicking about around the time of the First World War, reasoned that if rational thought and logic led to war they ought be dispensed with. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1223:The philosopher as an analyst is not concerned with the physical properties of things, but only with the way in which we speak about them. ~ Alfred Jules Ayer in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)., #NFDB
1224:There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1225:Truth is that dimension which is not logically explainable. It does not fit into logic because logic is always dividing; truth is always unifying. So where will this logic fit into life? ~ Sadguru, #NFDB
1226:Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. ~ Steven Bochco, #NFDB
1227:Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
1228:You should be able to handle what life sends your way. You need to use the thread of logic, as best as you can, to skilfully sew onto yourself everything that’s worth living for. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1229:Bonhoeffer had always struggled with the “problem” of being charming. He mistrusted it and wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded. ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
1230:Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down. ~ Charles R Swindoll, #NFDB
1231:in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
1232:The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan. ~ Catharine MacKinnon, #NFDB
1233:The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
1234:The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1235:There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them. ~ Jon Voight, #NFDB
1236:The sensors measured everything that Clark could think to measure, including the pressure on the engine. They passed these measurements up to the programmable logic controllers. The ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1237:A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1238:Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious... ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
1239:All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1240:If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it. ~ Gabe Newell, #NFDB
1241:It’s not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1242:One would think wisdom brings one to err less, but logic dictates that wisdom is more often gained through our errors than through those choices which meet with simple conclusions. ~ Melissa McPhail, #NFDB
1243:On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation. ~ Joanna Shupe, #NFDB
1244:That felt like the right approach, and feelings were as good as gold to him. Logic was the downfall of most men because it took the most important factor out of the equation: emotion. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1245:The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
1246:But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1247:If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1248:Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1249:The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1250:They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that - while they have no coherent internal logic - all seem drearily familiar and inevitable. ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
1251:Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape? ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1252:You know, in formal logic, an inconsistent set of axioms can be used to prove anything at all. Once you have a single contradiction, A and not A, there’s nothing you can’t derive from it. ~ Greg Egan, #NFDB
1253:A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1254:But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1255:Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1256:If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault."
"[...] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic. ~ Natsuki Takaya,#NFDB
1257:I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1258:Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ~ Remy de Gourmont, #NFDB
1259:Not by the hairsplitting distinctions of scholars but by the sure logic of faith, the childlike saint has solved the only problem in human life—establishment of unity with God. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1260:She wanted this man with an intensity that defied logic. Which was part of the reason she’d been ignoring him. A girl only had so much self-control when faced with all this deliciousness. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
1261:Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you’ll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That’s not pessimism talking, just logic. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1262:But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
1263:Grievance was a big part of Trump’s core, very much like a 14-year-old boy who felt he was being picked on unfairly. You couldn’t talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
1264:If the world were only pain and logic,
who would want it?
Of course, it isn’t.
Neither do I mean anything miraculous,
but only
the light that can shine out of a life. ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
1265:I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. ~ John Forbes Nash, #NFDB
1266:It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1267:The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ~ David Knopfler, #NFDB
1268:This is what distinguishes the philosopher from the Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1269:Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find. ~ Randy Gage, #NFDB
1270:You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
1271:As long as you haven't been able to feel all kinds of emotions simultaneously, you haven't been able to understand an ultimate logic in which the past, present and future take place at once. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
1272:In most situations, a direct comparison makes people more careful and more logical. But not always. Sometimes intuition beats logic even when the correct answer stares you in the face. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1273:In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets? ~ Maxim Gorky, #NFDB
1274:Mental' isn't a reason. It comes in an awful lot of flavors, most of them are non-violent, and every single one of them has some kind of logic, whether or not it makes sense to you and me. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1275:Mình nghĩ hắn bệnh trong đầu hơn mình nhiều."
"Mình cũng nghĩ thế," tôi nói. "Nhưng hắn có khả năng tập hợp tất cả những phẩm chất bệnh hoạn của hắn thành một hệ thống có logic. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
1276:RISK: If risks are known, good decisions require logic and statistical thinking. UNCERTAINTY: If some risks are unknown, good decisions also require intuition and smart rules of thumb. ~ Gerd Gigerenzer, #NFDB
1277:There is no denying that today’s elite may be among the more socially concerned elites in history. But it is also, by the cold logic of numbers, among the more predatory in history. ~ Anand Giridharadas, #NFDB
1278:There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next. ~ Moss Hart, #NFDB
1279:Why would a good and just God allow such evil to roam the earth, and if God can right the ship, why is he asleep at the wheel? Lying in the tub, I rejected my faith. Logic demanded it. ~ Ronald H Balson, #NFDB
1280:An abstract logic must always arrive, as the old systems arrived, at an infinite empty Negation or an infinite equally vacant Affirmation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Object of Knowledge, #NFDB
1281:Aristo rejected the study of logic and metaphysics, arguing that the primary concern of philosophers should be the study of ethics, an attitude we can find echoed in The Meditations. ~ Donald J Robertson, #NFDB
1282:It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don’t know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1283:Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1284:She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me ~ Iain S Thomas, #NFDB
1285:The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1286:Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history! ~ Apostolos K Doxiadis, #NFDB
1287:if you sufficiently dismember yourself, you will not be able to do any wrong action. This is the logic by which Jesus reduces the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees to the absurd. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
1288:In the logic of faith it is only by renouncing the wealth directly, saying, “I do not care about what I get from this sacrifice; all I want is you,” that we discover the wealth indirectly. ~ Peter Rollins, #NFDB
1289:The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
1290:The most common trait in insane people is that they think they aren't insane. According to the Pillar's nonsensical logic, we're all insane. The only way to survive insanity is to admit it. ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
1291:The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1292:To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different. Consider ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
1293:…consider New Age logic, which suggests that the poor have chosen to be poor, have chosen their suffering. Such thinking removes from all of us who are privileged the burden of accountability. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1294:My old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
1295:That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place—so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1296:Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1297:Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB
1298:Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal". ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1299: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. ~ Carl L Becker, #NFDB
1300:People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and some cases distorts your logic. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1301:The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man. ~ Max Frisch, #NFDB
1302:We often trick ourselves into not taking action because we think the obstacles are insurmountable. But when you apply a bit of logic, you’ll discover simple solutions to pretty much any problem. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1303:Formal logic, or logistics, is simply the axiomatics of states of equilibrium of thought, and the positive science corresponding to this axiomatics is none other than the psychology of thought. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1304:However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained by logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the hinges that held them together. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1305:love, real love, doesn't choose where it wants to go; it just happens. There's no rhyme or reason to it very often, and certainly it defies logic. But it happens and that's that Fait accompli. ~ Helen Brooks, #NFDB
1306:What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1307:Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me! ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1308:I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life. ~ Andy Biersack, #NFDB
1309:I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1310:Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable. ~ Megan Chance, #NFDB
1311:No, it is you who doesn’t understand. The facts don’t matter and that’s a fact. I wasn’t winning the crowd with logic, I was simply sowing seeds of doubt and bolstering my own confidence. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
1312:People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1313:The underlying logic was that increments in performance could be achieved only with proportional increments in resources—the same inherent logic guiding most companies’ view of performance gains. ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
1314:Arthur stared over the rim of his coffee cup at the grisly outside world. It was a completely pointless place to be, he realized, and he had been driven there by superstition rather than logic. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1315:As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts. ~ Mortimer J Adler, #NFDB
1316:But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1317:Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1318:I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not? ~ Pablo Larrain, #NFDB
1319:I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1320:Make yourself quiet, ask your heart what you are to believe and do, then cling to that and do it with all the force you can muster. And never let the voice of logic and probability prevent you. ~ Rodney Collin, #NFDB
1321:Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1322:Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1323:My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society. ~ Gary Yourofsky, #NFDB
1324:People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1325:People need routines. It’s like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1326:There is only one logic in spiritual things: when a demand is there for the Divine, a sincere call, it is bound one day to have its fulfilment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Call and the Capacity, #NFDB
1327:Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
1328:I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans. ~ Alexa Chung, #NFDB
1329:It is all too easy to accept emotions as primitive "givens" and proceed toward a superficial understanding based on words, arbitrary definitions, and the quiddities of logic rather than biology. ~ Jaak Panksepp, #NFDB
1330:Liberals had tried again and again to break into it and bounced. You had to have some logic to be able to work in talk radio. Not to mention a sense of humor which tofu-eaters were notably lacking. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
1331:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1332:All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1333:A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. ~ Leon Festinger, #NFDB
1334:A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. ~ Leon Festinger, #NFDB
1335:Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.' ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
1336:Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
1337:Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the potential for something bigger and better than the obvious. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1338:Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1339:The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1340:To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1341:when a person’s commitment to evidence and logic grows dangerously thin or simply snaps under the burden of fear, wishful thinking, tribalism, or ecstasy, we recognize that he’s being “religious. ~ John Brockman, #NFDB
1342:Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1343:But I do admit that it has brought nearly all of my relationships to an end, because it is inevitable that that end is also – as you say, by the same logic – something I will feel driven to provoke. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
1344:But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
1345:Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange. ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
1346:Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1347:Love isn't something predictable, Sky, and doesn't follow rules. You can’t decide who to fall in love with, or when. Love and logic don't go together, but when I'm with you, everything makes sense. ~ Lisa Swallow, #NFDB
1348:Mother Nature did not attend high school geometry courses or read the books of Euclid of Alexandria. Her geometry is jagged, but with a logic of its own and one that is easy to understand. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1349:The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic). ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1350:the truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought. ~ Francine Prose, #NFDB
1351:The whole process is straightforward and should not be the least bit intimidating. I ntricacies o f thought and great leaps of creative logic are no t required. This is no t the time for deep thinking ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1352:Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1353:All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void... ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1354:Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently. ~ D J Taylor, #NFDB
1355:In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925), #NFDB
1356:I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech. ~ Jeffrey McDaniel, #NFDB
1357:People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom. ~ Mario Cuomo, #NFDB
1358:The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. ~ Karl Blossfeldt, #NFDB
1359:When most Christians think apologetics training, they think philosophy, logic, and debate. However, the key tools for training the expository apologist are creeds, confessions and catechisms. ~ Voddie T Baucham Jr, #NFDB
1360:Either you follow logic, reason, and evidence to whatever conclusion it reaches, or you don’t. Faith begins with the conclusion. This is not a false dichotomy but a genuine stark difference in approach. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1361:If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic. ~ Anatoly Karpov, #NFDB
1362:[I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you. ~ Andrew Solomon, #NFDB
1363:It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1364:Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
1365:Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1366:most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic logic of ideas that served as causal factors in it ~ Peter L Berger, #NFDB
1367:She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence and the doggedness of a flower-pecker attacking a strangling fig. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1368:The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
1369:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1370:You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them. ~ Jacque Fresco, #NFDB
1371:You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1372:A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
1373:A useful technique for implementing the problem-solving process above is to visualize the problem using a logic tree. A logic tree is a simplified sketch of relationships branching out from left to right. ~ Blinkist, #NFDB
1374:But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1375:Don't throw that good and evil stuff at me. That's not even a Norse concept. Are you 'good' because you kill your enemies, but your enemies are 'bad' because they kill you? What sort of logic is that? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1376:I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right. ~ Todd Barry, #NFDB
1377:It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1378:My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1379:The ascertained nature of any real thing is always at first a nuisance to our natural fantasies—a wretched, pedantic, logic-chopping intruder upon a conversation which was getting on famously without it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1380:The ultimate problem of utopian logic begins with a utilitarian calculus in which everyone will live in perfect harmony once we get rid of any dissenters who don’t see as clearly as the collective. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
1381:This is the logic I will never find an answer to, the way in my family a hurt will always be your hurt or my hurt, one to be set against the other and weighed, never the family’s hurt. ~ Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich, #NFDB
1382:All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they’re virgins. Being a virgin doesn’t make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin. Your seduction logic is flawed.” “It’s ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1383:As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1384:By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
1385:I may dispute, in favour of my chosen road, the road that someone else has taken. I may criticize the workings of his logic... But I must respect the man, if he toils towards the same star. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1386:I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads. ~ Herbert, #NFDB
1387:Life develops in obedience to its own law and the pressure of forces and not according to the law and the logic of the self-conscious mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Drive towards Economic Centralisation, #NFDB
1388:The one possibility that Sanders tended to discount entirely was a landing at Gallipoli’s southern tip, simply because the most basic rules of military logic—even mere common sense—argued against it. ~ Scott Anderson, #NFDB
1389:The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand. ~ Murray Kempton, #NFDB
1390:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. B ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1391:You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
1392:But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. I ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1393:Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life. ~ Chiang Kai shek, #NFDB
1394:I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality. ~ Annabelle Selldorf, #NFDB
1395:It's hard to stop a war once it starts. Once the sword is drawn, blood's going to be spilled. This doesn't have anything to do with theory or logic, or even my ego. It's just a rule, pure and simple. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1396:Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation. ~ Robert Moss, #NFDB
1397:The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1398:Logic and reason simply exist, my dear. If you choose to ignore them or willfully pretend that 2 + 2 does not = 4 then you have chosen to be illogical. It is not a matter of opinion. It is epistemology. ~ David Simpson, #NFDB
1399:The targeting of the archduke thus exemplified one abiding strand in the logic of terrorist movements, namely that reformers and moderates are more to be feared than outright enemies and hardliners. ~ Christopher Clark, #NFDB
1400:The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do. ~ Adrian Hodges, #NFDB
1401:We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1402:Women! They insist on mixing everything up together. Perhaps they operate better that way, but it is very hard on those of us who find that keeping emotion and logic separate produces sounder thinking. ~ Harry Harrison, #NFDB
1403:I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
1404:It is very hard to understand the logic and intelligence of the argument that, in order to protect us from a group that might overpower us, we should support a group that already has overpowered us. It ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
1405:Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always. ~ Tamas Vasary, #NFDB
1406:Of course, logic is not the only tool used in debate, and it is helpful to be cognizant of the others. Rhetoric likely tops the list, followed by concepts such as the "burden of proof" and Occam's razor. ~ Ali Almossawi, #NFDB
1407:Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1408:That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning behind thoughtless impulse. ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
1409:When the headlights hit us, the rays acted like a steel blade slicing through our indecision. Our thoughts and plans fell away—as did our logic and ability to reason. All that remained was the urge to flee. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
1410:Being a leader is about leading your own mind's logic and leading your heart's reason. Be cognizant of the decisions that your mind and heart make, and your life will be much more meaningful and rewarding. ~ Najwa Zebian, #NFDB
1411:Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1412:People will tell you that theories don’t matter and that logic and philosophy aren’t practical. Don’t you believe them. Reason is from God, and when things are unreasonable there is something the matter. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1413:To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen, #NFDB
1414:Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1415:I cannot take a subway without marveling at the lottery logic that brings together a random sampling of humanity for one minute or two, testing us for kindness and compatibility. Is that not what civility is? ~ Bill Hayes, #NFDB
1416:If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1417:The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter—these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1418:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. Bitter ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1419:Does Logic deal with things, or is it a science of words? And the answer one gives to these questions has such far reaching implications that it controls every detail of the resulting system of philosophy. ~ Gordon H Clark, #NFDB
1420:Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1421:Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To convince a man, you must appeal to his self-interest, his desires, his will. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1422:Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant. ~ Deb Olin Unferth, #NFDB
1423:I’ve always believed that truth is found by using logic and reason to sort through the facts and eliminate the contradictions. I guess the question then becomes, what do you do when you don’t have all the facts? ~ Roy Huff, #NFDB
1424:The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1425:These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat. ~ Richard Wagner, #NFDB
1426: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. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1427:This is what it feels like to love someone. The fear that they could be harmed and you'd be helpless keeps you up at night. It's a rift in your logic. It turns you from sensible into someone who's inside out. ~ Liza Palmer, #NFDB
1428:What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1429:Whether epidemiology alone can, in strict logic, ever prove causality, even in this modern sense, may be questioned, but the same must also be said of laboratory experiments on animals. —Richard Doll ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1430:Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don’t have the constraints of conscious logic. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
1431:I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests. ~ Noah Cicero, #NFDB
1432:Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary ~ Gerald M Edelman, #NFDB
1433:For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
1434:How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump on this while you still feel...not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1435:The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing? ~ Thomas Powers, #NFDB
1436:It means leaving behind your physical body. Leaving the cage of your physical flesh, breaking free of the chains, and letting pure logic soar. Giving a natural life to logic. That's the core of free thought. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1437:I understand your logic, and I won’t try to pretend that it’s false,” Sespian said, “but you can’t always use logic when it comes to human beings. There are methods that are honorable and others that aren’t. ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
1438:Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body. ~ Ben Elton, #NFDB
1439:People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money. ~ Sheldon Richman, #NFDB
1440:Though Necessity dons the garb of Chance,
Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps
The slow calm logic of Infinity’s pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1441:To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. ~ Giorgio de Chirico, #NFDB
1442:We lost the war and it is not a surprise because we entered it with everything Eastern of the illusions of speeches. We invoke Antar and yet cannot slay a fly, because we entered it with the logic of the reed and the flute. ~, #NFDB
1443:A specialist of logic’s hard machine
Imposed its rigid artifice on the soul;
An aide of the inventor intellect,
It cut Truth into manageable bits ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1444:But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1445:Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols. ~ Augustus De Morgan, #NFDB
1446:Flames of outrage and reprisal had likewise made a comeback, his nearly forgotten, silent heritage no longer hidden by thirty years of compliance. Instead the fire grew, unmitigated by training, logic or reason. ~ Marcha A Fox, #NFDB
1447:I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood. ~ Arthur Bradford, #NFDB
1448:Mine. Mine. Mine.
Fuck, she’s mine.
Sanity is a thing of the past.
Insanity is my newest love.
Logic and reason are for haters, not lovers.
Lovers take the plunge into madness together, hand in hand. ~ K Webster,#NFDB
1449:...the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed, of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1450:To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow
intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might
lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen,#NFDB
1451:And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affections, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles.49 ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
1452:Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1453:I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1454:If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1455:Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
1456:Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1457:Logically, I understand that it wasn’t Edward’s fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you’re eleven years old, you don’t give a fuck about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother’s hand. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1458:Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1459:Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1460:The logic underlying the truism that one should always travel on a plane with a book is also precisely why bed-and-breakfast culture is to be avoided if at all possible. Namely, you might have to talk to someone. ~ David Rakoff, #NFDB
1461:The sad fact is that language and logic cut off from reality have a far greater power than the language and logic of reality—with all that extraneous matter weighing down like a rock on any actions we take. In ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1462:We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #NFDB
1463:Changes in a person's feelings aren't regulated by custom, logic, or the law. They're fluid, unstable, free to spread their wings and fly away. Like migratory birds have no concept of borders between countries. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1464:Changes in a person’s feelings aren’t regulated by custom, logic, or the law. They’re fluid, unstable, free to spread their wings and fly away. Like migratory birds have no concept of borders between countries. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1465:I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
1466:Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
1467:Second—to Miss Hermione Granger…for the use of cool logic in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor house fifty points."
Hermione buried her face in her arms; Harry strongly suspected she had burst into tears. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
1468:The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them. ~ Mortimer J Adler, #NFDB
1469:Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~ Laurell K HamiltonBibiana to Anita ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1470:The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed? ~ Janet Frame, #NFDB
1471:We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained. ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB
1472:Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1473:I know what you're thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1474:Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise. ~ Mikhail Naimy, #NFDB
1475:Peirce relentlessly criticizes the subjectivism that lies at the heart of so much modern epistemology, and he develops an intersubjective (social) understanding of inquiry, knowing, communication, and logic. ~ Richard J Bernstein, #NFDB
1476:Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad. ~ Murray Rothbard, #NFDB
1477:The construction of mathematical logic had become the arbiter of truth. This was the Pythagoreans' greatest contribution to civilisation - a way of achieving truth which is beyond the fallibility of human judgement. ~ Simon Singh, #NFDB
1478:The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
"Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation,
and merciless to fallacy in logic. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley,#NFDB
1479:The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Logic, Chapter 1, #NFDB
1480:There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
1481:When somebody comes with a conclusion, then he looks through that conclusion and chooses only things which support his position.
Logic is a prostitute.
It can help anybody - for or against, it has no problem. ~ Osho,#NFDB
1482:It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
1483:It was the logic of Protogen, of Dresden, of Thoth. Here is the problem, they said to themselves, and there is the solution. That it was drowned in innocent blood was as trivial as the font the reports were printed in. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1484:...Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw." [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. "I feel strange and empty, like after a shit. ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
1485:To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this? ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
1486:You can't skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! That's the easiest solution to the problem! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1487:If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1488:If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
1489:I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1490:Palatability, by this logic, is a learned response, conditioned largely by hunger, which in turn is a response to the pattern of insulin secretion and the availability of fatty acids and/or glucose in the circulation. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
1491:the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought so. The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
1492:The woman doesn’t want you to argue or try to solve the problem with logic. The woman wants you to commiserate with her. You don’t have to fix anything. Just stand there and nod and say ‘uh huh’ and ‘I understand. ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
1493:Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. ~ Leonardo da Vinci,#NFDB
1494:(1) disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity. ~ Milton William Cooper, #NFDB
1495:Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic. ~ Ronald H Nash, #NFDB
1496:I know these things. I'm always right. It's got nothing to do with logic: I just feel it. For example, when I'm really close to you like this, I'm not the least bit scared. Nothing dark or evil could ever tempt me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1497:That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1498:As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone. ~ Thomas Kuhn, #NFDB
1499:Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction. ~ Diane Ackerman, #NFDB
1500:I don’t know about you, but my old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
305 Integral Yoga
70 Occultism
52 Christianity
35 Psychology
35 Philosophy
32 Yoga
22 Science
21 Fiction
16 Poetry
8 Integral Theory
6 Hinduism
6 Education
5 Theosophy
4 Mysticism
3 Cybernetics
2 Sufism
2 Buddhism
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
185 Sri Aurobindo
146 The Mother
86 Satprem
71 Nolini Kanta Gupta
37 Carl Jung
32 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
29 Aleister Crowley
21 H P Lovecraft
17 Swami Krishnananda
15 Plotinus
15 James George Frazer
14 A B Purani
8 Sri Ramakrishna
8 Plato
6 Swami Vivekananda
6 Rudolf Steiner
6 Aldous Huxley
5 Saint Augustine of Hippo
5 Jorge Luis Borges
5 Jordan Peterson
4 Friedrich Nietzsche
3 William Butler Yeats
3 Vyasa
3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Paul Richard
3 Patanjali
3 Norbert Wiener
3 George Van Vrekhem
3 Alice Bailey
2 William Wordsworth
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Peter J Carroll
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Ken Wilber
2 Franz Bardon
33 The Synthesis Of Yoga
32 The Life Divine
21 Lovecraft - Poems
20 Magick Without Tears
19 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
17 The Study and Practice of Yoga
15 The Golden Bough
14 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
13 The Future of Man
13 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
13 Letters On Yoga IV
13 Letters On Yoga II
13 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
13 Agenda Vol 04
12 The Human Cycle
12 Mysterium Coniunctionis
12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
11 Questions And Answers 1953
11 Essays Divine And Human
10 The Practice of Psycho therapy
10 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
9 Savitri
9 Liber ABA
9 Let Me Explain
9 Essays On The Gita
9 Agenda Vol 06
8 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
8 Questions And Answers 1956
8 Questions And Answers 1955
8 Questions And Answers 1954
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
8 Agenda Vol 02
7 The Problems of Philosophy
7 The Phenomenon of Man
7 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
7 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
7 Aion
7 Agenda Vol 08
7 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
6 Vedic and Philological Studies
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Perennial Philosophy
6 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
6 Record of Yoga
6 Agenda Vol 09
6 Agenda Vol 03
5 Talks
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Letters On Yoga I
5 Agenda Vol 11
5 Agenda Vol 10
5 Agenda Vol 01
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 On Education
4 Isha Upanishad
4 City of God
4 Agenda Vol 05
3 Yeats - Poems
3 Vishnu Purana
3 Raja-Yoga
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 Labyrinths
3 Hymn of the Universe
3 Cybernetics
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 Agenda Vol 12
2 Wordsworth - Poems
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 Theosophy
2 The Integral Yoga
2 The Essentials of Education
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Some Answers From The Mother
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Liber Null
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This AGENDA ... One day, another species among men will pore over this fabulous document as over the tumultuous drama that must have surrounded the birth of the first man among the hostile hordes of a great, delirious Paleozoic. A first man is the dangerous contradiction of a certain simian logic, a threat to the established order that so genteelly ran about amid the high, indefeasible ferns - and to begin with, it does not even know that it is a man. It wonders, indeed, what it is. Even to itself it is strange, distressing. It does not even know how to climb trees any longer in its usual way
- and it is terribly disturbing for all those who still climb trees in the old, millennial way. Perhaps it is even a heresy. Unless it is some cerebral disorder? A first man in his little clearing had to have a great deal of courage. Even this little clearing was no longer so sure. A first man is a perpetual question. What am I, then, in the midst of all that? And where is my law? What is the law? And what if there were no more laws? ... It is terrifying. Mathematics - out of order. Astronomy and biology, too, are beginning to respond to mysterious influences. A tiny point huddled in the center of the world's great clearing. But what is all this, what if I were 'mad'? And then, claws all around, a lot of claws against this uncommon creature. A first man ... is very much alone. He is quite unbearable for the pre-human 'reason.' And the surrounding tribes growled like red monkies in the twilight of Guiana.
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'Something else' is ominous, perilous, disrupting - it is quite unbearable for all those who resemble the old beast. The story of the Pondicherry 'Ashram' is the story of an old clan ferociously clinging to its 'spiritual' privileges, as others clung to the muscles that had made them kings among the great apes. It is armed with all the piousness and all the reasonableness that had made logical man so 'infallible' among his less cerebral brothers. The spiritual brain is probably the worst obstacle to the new species, as were the muscles of the old orangutan for this fragile stranger who no longer climbed so well in the trees and sat, pensive, at the center of a little, uncertain clearing.
There is nothing more pious than the old species. There is nothing more legal. Mother was searching for the path of the new species as much against all the virtues of the old as against all its vices or laws. For, in truth, 'Something Else' ... is something else.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A certain rationalistic critic divides the Upanishadic symbols into three categoriesthose that are rational and can be easily understood by the mind; those that are not understood by the mind and yet do not go against reason, having nothing inherently irrational in them and may be simply called non-rational; those that seem to be quite irrational, for they go frankly against all canons of logic and common sense. As an example of the last, the irrational type, the critic cites a story from the Chhndogya, which may be rendered thus:
There was an aspirant, a student who was seeking after knowledge. One day there appeared to him a white dog. Soon, other dogs followed and addressed their predecessor: "O Lord, sing to our Food, for we desire to eat." The white dog answered, "Come to me at dawn here in this very place." The aspirant waited. The dogs, like singer-priests, circled round in a ring. Then they sat and cried aloud; they cried out," Om We eat and Om we drink, may the gods bring here our food."
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Vaishnavism is exclusively a religion of bhakti. Bhakti is intense love of God, attachment to Him alone; it is of the nature of bliss and bestows upon the lover immortality and liberation. God, according to Vaishnavism, cannot be realized through logic or reason; and, without bhakti, all penances, austerities and rites are futile. Man cannot realize God by self-exertion alone. For the vision of God His grace is absolutely necessary, and this grace is felt by the pure of heart. The mind is to be purified through bhakti. The pure mind then remains for ever immersed in the ecstasy of God-vision. It is the cultivation of this divine love that is the chief concern of the Vaishnava religion.
There are three kinds of formal devotion: tamasic, rajasic, and sattvic. If a person, while showing devotion, to God, is actuated by malevolence, arrogance, jealousy, or anger, then his devotion is tamasic, since it is influenced by tamas, the quality of inertia. If he worships God from a desire for fame or wealth, or from any other worldly ambition, then his devotion is rajasic, since it is influenced by rajas, the quality of activity. But if a person loves God without any thought of material gain, if he performs his duties to please God alone and maintains toward all created beings the attitude of friendship, then his devotion is called sattvic, since it is influenced by sattva, the quality of harmony. But the highest devotion transcends the three gunas, or qualities, being a spontaneous, uninterrupted inclination of the mind toward God, the Inner Soul of all beings; and it wells up in the heart of a true devotee as soon as he hears the name of God or mention of God's attributes. A devotee possessed of this love would not accept the happiness of heaven if it were offered him. His one desire is to love God under all conditions — in pleasure and pain, life and death, honour and dishonour, prosperity and adversity.
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When they returned to the room and Narendra heard the Master speaking to others, he was surprised to find in his words an inner logic, a striking sincerity, and a convincing proof of his spiritual nature. In answer to Narendra's question, "Sir, have you seen God?" the Master said: "Yes, I have seen God. I have seen Him more tangibly than I see you. I have talked to Him more intimately than I am talking to you." Continuing, the Master said: "But, my child, who wants to see God? People shed jugs of tears for money, wife, and children. But if they would weep for God for only one day they would surely see Him." Narendra was amazed. These words he could not doubt. This was the first time he had ever heard a man saying that he had seen God. But he could not reconcile these words of the Master with the scene that had taken place on the verandah only a few minutes before. He concluded that Sri Ramakrishna was a monomaniac, and returned home rather puzzled in mind.
During his second visit, about a month later, suddenly, at the touch of the Master, Narendra felt overwhelmed and saw the walls of the room and everything around him whirling and vanishing. "What are you doing to me?" he cried in terror. "I have my father and mother at home." He saw his own ego and the whole universe almost swallowed in a nameless void. With a laugh the Master easily restored him. Narendra thought he might have been hypnotized, but he could not understand how a monomaniac could cast a spell over the mind of a strong person like himself. He returned home more confused than ever, resolved to be henceforth on his guard before this strange man.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The logician my say, "But white exists, and if
white is destroyed, it leaves black; yet black exists. So
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The logician and his logic are alike involved in the
universal ruin.
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of bio logical extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist's brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideo logical discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
only the principal lines appear, giving a slightly more logical
aspect to circumstances.
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If the bodily life is what Nature has firmly evolved for us as her base and first instrument, it is our mental life that she is evolving as her immediate next aim and superior instrument. This in her ordinary exaltations is the lofty preoccupying thought in her; this, except in her periods of exhaustion and recoil into a reposeful and recuperating obscurity, is her constant pursuit wherever she can get free from the trammels of her first vital and physical realisations. For here in man we have a distinction which is of the utmost importance. He has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason. Mind in man is first emmeshed in the life of the body, where in the plant it is entirely involved and in animals always imprisoned. It accepts this life as not only the first but the whole condition of its activities and serves its needs as if they were the entire aim of existence. But the bodily life in man is a base, not the aim, his first condition and not his last determinant. In the just idea of the ancients man is essentially the thinker, the Manu, the mental being who leads the life and the body,3 not the animal who is led by them. The true human existence, therefore, only begins when the intellectual mentality emerges out of the material and we begin more and more to live in the mind independent of the nervous and physical obsession and in the measure of that liberty are able to accept rightly and rightly to use the life of the body. For freedom and not a skilful subjection is the true means of mastery. A free, not a compulsory acceptance of the conditions, the enlarged and sublimated conditions of our physical being, is the high human ideal. But beyond this intellectual mentality is the divine.
The mental life thus evolving in man is not, indeed, a
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
But there were occasions when he did give his independent, personal views on some problems, on events or other subjects. Even then it was never an authoritarian pronouncement. Most often it appeared to be a logically worked out and almost inevitable conclusion expressed quite impersonally though with firm and sincere conviction. This impersonality was such a prominent trait of his personality! Even in such matters as dispatching a letter or a telegram it would not be a command from him to a disciple to carry out the task. Most often during his usual passage to the dining room he would stop on the way, drop in on the company of four or five disciples and, holding out the letter or the telegram, would say in the most amiable and yet the most impersonal way: "I suppose this has to be sent." And it would be for someone in the group instantly to volunteer and take it. The expression he very often used was "It was done" or "It happened", not "I did."
From 1918 to 1922, we gathered at No. 41, Rue Franois Martin, called the Guest House, upstairs, on a broad verandah into which four rooms opened and whose main piece of furniture was a small table 3' x 1' covered with a blue cotton cloth. That is where Sri Aurobindo used to sit in a hard wooden chair behind the table with a few chairs in front for the visitors or for the disciples.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
Night must impose upon itself; this, as might be logically deduced from the Ascent,
consists in 'allowing the soul to remain in peace and quietness,' content 'with a
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a direct and closer communion is established through a plane which is just above the mind the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or transcends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised formation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and body; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destructionit is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psycho logically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness.
This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance: ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never altogether to remove or change itto live in the full light, to be in and of the Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering has always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This, I say, is something different from the religious and even from the mystic. It is away from the merely religious, because it is naked of the vesture of humanity (in spite of a human face that masks it at times) ; it is something more than the merely mystic, for it does not stop being a signpost or an indication to the Beyond, but is itself the presence and embodiment of the Beyond. The mystic gives us, we can say, the magic of the Infinite; what I term the spiritual, the spiritual proper, gives in addition the logic of the Infinite. At least this is what distinguishes modern spiritual consciousness from the ancient, that is, Upanishadic spiritual consciousness. The Upanishad gives expression to the spiritual consciousness in its original and pristine purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. It did not buttress itself with any logic. It is the record of fundamental experiences and there was no question of any logical exposition. But, as I have said, the modern mind requires and demands a logical element in its perceptions and presentations. Also it must needs be a different kind of logic that can satisfy and satisfy wholly the deeper and subtler movements of a modern consciousness. For the philosophical poet of an earlier age, when he had recourse to logic, it was the logic of the finite that always gave him the frame, unless he threw the whole thing overboard and leaped straight into the occult, the il logical and the a logical, like Blake, for instance. Let me illustrate and compare a little. When the older poet explains indriyani hayan ahuh, it is an allegory he resorts to, it is the logic of the finite he marshals to point to the infinite and the beyond. The stress of reason is apparent and effective too, but the pattern is what we are normally familiar with the movement, we can say, is almost Aristotelian in its rigour. Now let us turn to the following:
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
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This is what I was trying to make out as the distinguishing trait of the real spiritual consciousness that seems to be developing in the poetic creation of tomorrow, e.g., it has the same rationality, clarity, concreteness of perception as the scientific spirit has in its own domain and still it is rounded off with a halo of magic and miracle. That is the nature of the logic of the infinite proper to the spiritual consciousness. We can have a Science of the Spirit as well as a Science of Matter. This is the Thought element or what corresponds to it, of which I was speaking, the philosophical factor, that which gives form to the formless or definition to that which is vague, a nearness and familiarity to that which is far and alien. The fullness of the spiritual consciousness means such a thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar consciousness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies all the aspiration and yearning moved by intimations and suggestions belonging to the human mentality, the divine urge retaining still the human flavour. We can say also, using a Vedantic terminology, that the mystic consciousness gives us the tatastha lakshana, the nearest approximative attribute of the attri buteless; or otherwise, it is the hiranyagarbha consciousness which englobes the multiple play, the coruscated possibilities of the Reality: while the spiritual proper may be considered as prajghana, the solid mass, the essential lineaments of revelatory knowledge, the typal "wave-particles" of the Reality. In the former there is a play of imagination, even of fancy, a decorative aesthesis, while in the latter it is vision pure and simple. If the spiritual poetry is solar in its nature, we can say, by extending the analogy, that mystic poetry is characteristically lunarMoon representing the delight and the magic that Mind and mental imagination, suffused, no doubt, with a light or a reflection of some light from beyond, is capable of (the Upanishad speaks of the Moon being born of the Mind).
To sum up and recapitulate. The evolution of the poetic expression in man has ever been an attempt at a return and a progressive approach to the spiritual source of poetic inspiration, which was also the original, though somewhat veiled, source from the very beginning. The movement has followed devious waysstrongly negative at timeseven like man's life and consciousness in general of which it is an organic member; but the ultimate end and drift seems to have been always that ideal and principle even when fallen on evil days and evil tongues. The poet's ideal in the dawn of the world was, as the Vedic Rishi sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power,kavi kavitv divi rpam sajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit:
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its logic of infinite intelligence,
Its magic of a changing eternity.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
All movementswhe ther of thought or of life, whether in the individual or in the massproceed from a fundamental intuition which lies in the background as the logical presupposition, the psycho logical motive and the spiritual force. A certain attitude of the soul, a certain angle of vision is what is posited first; all other thingsall thoughts and feelings and activities are but necessary attempts to express, to demonstrate, to realise on the conscious and dynamic levels, in the outer world, the truth which has thus already been seized in some secret core of our being. The intuition may not, of course, be present to the conscious mind, it may not be ostensibly sought for, one may even deny the existence of such a preconceived notion and proceed to establish truth on a tabula rasa; none the less it is this hidden bias that judges, this secret consciousness that formulates, this unknown power that fashions.
Now, what is the intuition that lies behind the movements of the new age? What is the intimate realisation, the underlying view-point which is guiding and modelling all our efforts and achievementsour science and art, our poetry and philosophy, our religion and society? For, there is such a common and fundamental note which is being voiced forth by the human spirit through all the multitude of its present-day activities.
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The worship of man as something essentially and exclusively human necessitates as a corollary, the other doctrine, viz the deification of Reason; and vice versa. Humanism and Scientism go together and the whole spirit and mentality of the age that is passing may be summed up in those two words. So Nietzsche says, "All our modern world is captured in the net of the Alexandrine culture and has, for its ideal, the theoretical man, armed with the most powerful instruments of knowledge, toiling in the service of science and whose prototype and original ancestor is Socrates." Indeed, it may be generally asserted that the nation whose prophet and sage claimed to have brought down Philosophia from heaven to dwell upon earth among men was precisely the nation, endowed with a clear and logical intellect, that was the very embodiment of rationality and reasonableness. As a matter of fact, it would not be far, wrong to say that it is the Hellenic culture which has been moulding humanity for ages; at least, it is this which has been the predominating factor, the vital and dynamic element in man's nature. Greece when it died was reborn in Rome; Rome, in its return, found new life in France; and France means Europe. What Europe has been and still is for the world and humanity one knows only too much. And yet, the Hellenic genius has not been the sole motive power and constituent element; there has been another leaven which worked constantly within, if intermittently without. If Europe represented mind and man and this side of existence, Asia always reflected that which transcends the mind the spirit, the Gods and the Beyonds.
However, we are concerned more with the immediate past, the mentality that laid its supreme stress upon the human rationality. What that epoch did not understand was that Reason could be overstepped, that there was something higher, something greater than Reason; Reason being the sovereign faculty, it was thought there could be nothing beyond, unless it were draison. The human attribute par excellence is Reason. Exactly so. But the fact is that man is not bound by his humanity and that reason can be transformed and sublimated into other more powerful faculties.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism is curiosity the scientist's pleasure in analysing, observing, experimenting, changing the conditions of our reactions, mental or sentimental or even nervous and physical by way of discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psycho logical states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarm and constitutes almost the whole of Valry's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn.
The consciously purposive activity of the poetic consciousness in fact, of all artistic consciousness has shown itself with a clear and unambiguous emphasis in two directions. First of all with regard to the subject-matter: the old-world poets took things as they were, as they were obvious to the eye, things of human nature and things of physical Nature, and without questioning dealt with them in the beauty of their normal form and function. The modern mentality has turned away from the normal and the obvious: it does not accept and admit the "given" as the final and definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible prophet. In revolt against the old and established order of truths and customs, against all that is normally considered as beautiful,ideals and emotions and activities of man or aspects and scenes and movements of Natureagainst God or spiritual life, the modern poet turns deliberately to the ugly and the macabre, the meaningless, the insignificant and the triflingtins and teas, bone and dust and dustbin, hammer and sicklehe is still a prophet, a violent one, an iconoclast, but one who has his own icon, a terribly jealous being, that seeks to pull down the past, erase it, to break and batter and knead the elements in order to fashion out of them something conforming to his heart's desire. There is also the class who have the vision and found the truth and its solace, who are prophets, angelic and divine, messengers and harbingers of a new beauty that is to dawn upon earth. And yet there are others in whom the two strains mingle or approach in a strange way. All this means that the artist is far from being a mere receiver, a mechanical executor, a passive unconscious instrument, but that he is supremely' conscious and master of his faculties and implements. This fact is doubly reinforced when we find how much he is preoccupied with the technical aspect of his craft. The richness and variety of patterns that can be given to the poetic form know no bounds today. A few major rhythms were sufficient for the ancients to give full expression to their poetic inflatus. For they cared more for some major virtues, the basic and fundamental qualitiessuch as truth, sublimity, nobility, forcefulness, purity, simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness; they were more preoccupied with what they had to say and they wanted, no doubt, to say it beautifully and powerfully; but the modus operandi was not such a passion or obsession with them, it had not attained that almost absolute value for itself which modern craftsmanship gives it. As technology in practical life has become a thing of overwhelming importance to man today, become, in the Shakespearean phrase, his "be-all and end-all", even so the same spirit has invaded and pervaded his aesthetics too. The subtleties, variations and refinements, the revolutions, reversals and inventions which the modern poet has ushered and takes delight in, for their own sake, I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And learn the logic of the Infinite.
The Ideal must be Nature's common truth,
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The logic of its demigod Idea
In the leap of a transitional moment brings
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Pascal's faith had not the calm, tranquil, serene, luminous and happy self-possession of an Indian Rishi. It was ardent and impatient, fiery and vehement. It had to be so perhaps, since it was to stand against his steely brain (and a gloomy vital or life force) as a counterpoise, even as an antidote. This tension and schism brought about, at least contri buted to his neuras thenia and physical infirmity. But whatever the effect upon his inner consciousness and spiritual achievement, his power of expression, his literary style acquired by that a special quality which is his great gift to the French language. If one speaks of Pascal, one has to speak of his language also; for he was one of the great masters who created the French prose. His prose was a wonderful blend of clarity, precision, serried logic and warmth, colour, life, movement, plasticity.
A translation cannot give any idea of the Pascalian style; but an inner echo of the same can perhaps be caught from the thought movement of these characteristic sayings of his with which we conclude:
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
No doubt this is a most dismal kind of pessimism. But it is the logical conclusion of all optimism that bases itself upon a particular view of human nature. If we question that pessimism, we have to question the very grounds of our optimism also. As a matter of fact, all our idealism has been so long infructuous and will be so in the future, if we do not shift our foundation and start from a different IntuitionWeltanschauung.
Our ideals have been mental constructions, rather than spiritual realitiesrealities of the deepest and highest being. And the power by which we sought to realise those ideals was mainly the insistence of our emotional urges, rather than Nature's Truth-Power. For this must be understood that the mental, the vital and the physical form a nexus of reality which works in its own inexorable law and so long as we are within them we cannot but obey the laws that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds the key to man's nature. It is the executive power, the force that fashions the realities on the physical plane; it is what creates the character. The power of thought and sentiment is often much too exaggerated, even so the power of the body, that of physical and external rules and regulations. The mental or the physical or both together can mould the vital only to a limited extent, to the extent which is allowed by the inherent law of the vital. If the demands of the mental and the physical are stretched too far and are not suffered by the vital, a crash and catastrophe is bound to come in the end.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
From the twentieth century back to the fourteenth is a far cry: a far cry indeed from the modern scientific illumination to mediaeval superstition, from logical positivists and mathematical rationalists to visionary mystics, from Russell and Huxley to Ruysbroeck and Hilton. The mystic lore, the Holy Writ, the mediaeval sage says, echoing almost the very words of the Eastern Masters, "may not be got by study nor through man's travail only, but principally by the grace of the Holy Ghost." As for the men living and moving in the worldly way, there are "so mickle din and crying in their heart and vain thoughts and fleshly desires" that it is impossible for them to listen or understand the still small voice. It is the pure soul touched by the Grace that alone "seeth soothfastness of Holy Writ wonderly shewed and opened, above study and travail and reason of man's kindly (i.e. natural) wit."
What is day to us is night to the mystics and what is day to the mystics is night for us. The first thing the mystic asks is to close precisely those doors and windows which we, on the contrary, feel obliged to keep always open in order to know and to live and move. The Gita says: "The sage is wakeful when it is night for all creatures and when all creatures are wakeful, that is night for the sage." Even so this sage from the West says: "The more I sleep from outward things, the more wakeful am I in knowing of Jhesu and of inward things. I may not wake to Jhesu, but if I sleep to the world."
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As a matter of fact it is not so. The glimpses of a higher form of consciousness we can see even now present in self-consciousness. We have spoken of the different stages of evolution as if they were separate and distinct and incommensurate entities. They may be described as such for the purpose of a logical understanding, but in reality they form a single progressive continuum in which one level gradually fuses into another. And as the higher level takes up the law of the lower and evolves out of it a characteristic function, even so the law of the higher level with its characteristic function is already involved and envisaged in the law of the lower level and its characteristic function. It cannot be asserted positively that because man's special virtue is self-consciousness, animals cannot have that quality on any account. We do see, if we care to observe closely and dispassionately, that animals of the higher order, as they approach the level of humanity, show more and more evident signs of something which is very much akin to, if not identical with the human characteristic of self-consciousness.
So, in man also, especially of that order which forms the crown of humanityin poets and artists and seers and great men of actioncan be observed a certain characteristic form of consciousness, which is something other than, greater than the consciousness of the mere self. It is difficult as yet to characterise definitely what that thing is. It is the awakening of the self to something which is beyond itselfit is the cosmic self, the oversoul, the universal being; it is God, it is Turiya, it is sachchidanandain so many ways the thing has been sought to be envisaged and expressed. The consciousness of that level has also a great variety of names given to it Intuition, Revelation, cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness. It is to be noted here, however, that the thing we are referring to, is not the Absolute, the Infinite, the One without a second. It is not, that is to say, the supreme Reality the Brahmanin its static being, in its undivided and indivisible unity; it is the dynamic Brahman, that status of the supreme Reality where creation, the diversity of Becoming takes rise, it is the Truth-worldRitam the domain of typal realities. The distinction is necessary, as there does seem to be such a level of consciousness intermediary, again, between man and the Absolute, between self-consciousness and the supreme consciousness. The simplest thing would be to give that intermediate level of consciousness a negative namesince being as yet human we cannot foresee exactly its composition and function the super-consciousness.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
devoting all my time to work. But my logic does not
accept this. Where does this idea come from and why?
In this case your logic is right. In the outer nature there is often
a tamasic tendency to simplify the conditions of life in order to
01.10 - Nicholas Berdyaev: God Made Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is another aspect of personality as viewed by Berdyaev which involves a bias of the more orthodox Christian faith: the Christ is inseparable from the Cross. So he says: "There is no such thing as personality if there is no capacity for suffering. Suffering is inherent in God too, if he is a personality, and not merely an abstract idea. God shares in the sufferings of men. He yearns for responsive love. There are divine as well as human passions and therefore divine or creative personality must always suffer to the end of time. A condition of anguish and distress is inherent in it." The view is logically enforced upon the Christian, it is said, if he is to accept incarnation, God becoming flesh. Flesh cannot but be weak. This very weakness, so human, is and must be specially characteristic of God also, if he is one with man and his lover and saviour.
Eastern spirituality does not view sorrow and sufferingevilas an integral part of the Divine Consciousness. It is born out of the Divine, no doubt, as nothing can be outside the Divine, but it is a local and temporal formation; it is a disposition consequent upon certain conditions and with the absence or elimination of those conditions, this disposition too disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality and delight. The compassion that a Buddha feels for the suffering humanity is not at all a feeling of suffering; pain or any such normal human reaction does not enter into its composition; it is the movement of a transcendent consciousness which is beyond and purified of the normal reactions, yet overarching them and entering into them as a soothing and illumining and vivifying presence. The healer knows and understands the pain and suffering of his patient but is not touched by them; he need not contract the illness of his patient in order to be in sympathy with him. The Divine the Soulcan be in flesh and yet not smirched with its mire; the flesh is not essentially or irrevocably the ooze it is under certain given conditions. The divine physical body is composed of radiant matter and one can speak of it even as of the soul that weapons cannot pierce it nor can fire burn it.
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not speak like politicians or banias; but the very truth of the matter demands such a policy or line of action. It is very well to talk of principles and principles alone, but what are principles unless they take life and form in a particular individual? They are airy nothings, notions in the brain of logicians and metaphysicians, fit subjects for discussion in the academy, but they are devoid of that vital urge which makes them creative agencies. We have long lines of philosophers, especially European, who most scrupulously avoided all touch of personalities, whose utmost care was to keep principles pure and unsullied; and the upshot was that those principles remained principles only, barren and infructuous, some thing like, in the strong and puissant phrase of BaudelaireLa froide majest de la femme strile. And on the contrary, we have had other peoples, much addicted to personalitiesespecially in Asiawho did not care so much for abstract principles as for concrete embodiments; and what has been the result here? None can say that they did not produce anything or produced only still-born things. They produced living creaturesephemeral, some might say, but creatures that lived and moved and had their days.
But, it may be asked, what is the necessity, what is the purpose in making it all a one man show? Granting that principles require personalities for their fructuation and vital functioning, what remains to be envisaged is not one personality but a plural personality, the people at large, as many individuals of the human race as can be consciously imbued with those principles. When principles are made part and parcel of, are concentrated in a single solitary personality, they get "cribbed and cabined," they are vitiated by the idiosyncrasies of the man, they come to have a narrower field of application; they are emptied of the general verities they contain and finally cease to have any effect.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A similar compilation was published in the Arya, called The Eternal Wisdom (Les Paroles ternelles, in French) a portion of which appeared later on in book-form: that was more elaborate, the contents were arranged in such a way that no comments were needed, they were self-explanatory, divided as they were in chapters and sections and subsections with proper headings, the whole thing put in a logical and organised sequence. Huxley's compilation begins under the title of the Upanishadic text "That art Thou" with this saying of Eckhart: "The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without". It will be interesting to note that the Arya compilation too starts with the same idea under the title "The God of All; the God who is in All", the first quotation being from Philolaus, "The Universe is a Unity".The Eternal Wisdom has an introduction called "The Song of Wisdom" which begins with this saying from the Book of Wisdom: "We fight to win sublime Wisdom; therefore men call us warriors".
Huxley gives only one quotation from Sri Aurobindo under the heading "God in the World". Here it is:
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But inevitablyit will increase more and more! Which is why I cannot do what I used to do when there were one hundred and fifty people in the Ashram. If they had just a little bit of common sense, they would understand that I cannot have the same relationship with people now (just imagine, 1,800 people these last days!), so I cannot have the same relationship with 1,845 people (exactly, I believe) as with thirty or even a hundred. That seems an easy enough logic to understand.
But they want everything to remain as it was and, as you say, to be the first to benefit.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When the Grace acts on the collectivity, each thing, each element, each principle, is put in its place as the result of a karmic logic in the universal movement. This is what gives us the impression of disorder and confusion as we see it.
When the Grace acts on the individual, it gives to each the maximum position according to what he is and what he has realized.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
logically, according to reason, war seems unavoidable. But as he asked, I looked I looked at my nights, precisely, as well as other things. And then I said, I dont feel it. I dont feel any war.
And again this morning, when I looked at this vision, I asked myself, Will there be war?I dont feel it will be like that It may be worse.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
How strange it is! You have the feeling of ascending, of a progress in consciousness, and everything, all the events and circumstances of life follow one another with an unquestioning logic. You see the Divine Will unfolding with a wonderful logic. Then, from time to time, there appears a little set of circumstances (either isolated or repeated), which are like snags on the way; you cant explain them, so you put them aside for later on. Some such accidents have been quite significant, but they dont seem to follow this ascending line of the present individuality. Theyre scattered along the way, sometimes repeated, sometimes only once, and then they vanish. And when you go through such an experience, you sense that they are things put aside for later on. And then, all of a sudden (especially during these last two years when I have again descended to take all that up), all of a sudden, one after another, all these snags return. And they dont follow the same curve; rather, its as if suddenly you reach a certain state and a certain impersonal breadth that far surpasses the individual, and this new state enters into contact with one of those old accidents that had remained in the deepest part of the subconscientand that makes it rise up again, the two meet in an explosion of light. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything is clear! No explanation is needed: it has become OBVIOUS.
This is entirely another way of understandingits not an ascent, not even a descent nor an inspiration it must be what Sri Aurobindo calls a revelation. Its the meeting of this subconscious notationthis something which has remained buried within, held down so as not to manifest, but which suddenly surges forth to meet the light streaming down from above, this very vast state of consciousness that excludes nothing and from it springs forth a lightoh, a resplendence of light!like a new explanation of the world, or of that part of the world not yet explained.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But its only to make me find the to make me go through the experience and to find the strength. And also to give the body this absolute faith in its Divine Realityto show it that the Divine is there and that He wants to be there and that He shall be there. And its only at such moments as thesewhen logically, according to the ordinary physical logic, its all over that you can seize the key.
You have to go right through everything without flinching.
0 1961-01-31, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the logical consequence of the research I have been doing for a long time now on the cause of illnesses and how to overcome them.
This ought to be noted down, because its important. It has seemed all the more important to me these last two days. Beginning yesterday evening, there was a whole series of experiences, and this morning I came to a certain conclusion, whose starting point, I realized, was that experience I had upon coming out of trance.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the present case, of course, the body is always saying, I am ready for everything I will do anything at all; yet I still cant say that it has this. Its trying to be completely pure according to the spiritual conceptit doesnt sense its separate personality. More and more, year after year, it has been striving to feel only the divine Presence, the divine Life, the divine Force and the divine Will, all within itself; and to feel that without them it is nothing, it doesnt exist. This is fully realized in its consciousness (the conscious part). In the subconscient and inconscient,5 obviously it is not realized otherwise, logically, it shouldnt be ill.
The whole disorder evidently originates from the subconscient and inconscient; all the more so as it came with various indications (sent by the hostile forces but this can always be useful, provided you are careful) saying, Yes, everything is going well in your higher centers, but(because the different points of attack have clearly followed the order of the centers). Four or five days ago, or maybe a week, before this latest difficulty occurred, I saw little beings coming out of the subconscient and saying, Ah! Your legs havent had any trouble for a long time! Its the turn of the lower centers! I swept it all away, of course, but.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All this must be a preparation; there is a lot to be cleared out before the experience can be firmly established. Thats logical, it is quite natural.
Whats natural also and annoyingis that people know nothing, understand nothing, even those who see me all the time, like the doctor. He still hasnt been able to understand and he suddenly grew worried, thinking I was on my way to the other side! All this makes a mess of the atmosphere it just doesnt help! Their faith is not sufficiently (how to put it?) enlightened for them to keep still and simply say, Well, we shall see, without questioning. They are not beyond questioning and this complicates matters.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In his cosmogony, Theon accounted for the successive pralayas2 of the different universes by saying that each universe was an aspect of the Supreme manifesting itself: each universe was built upon one aspect of the Supreme, and all, one after the other, were withdrawn into the Supreme. He enumerated all the successively manifested aspects, and what an extraordinarily logical sequence it was! I have kept it some place, but I no longer know where. Nor do I remember exactly what number this universe has in the sequence, but this time it was supposed to be the universe which would not be withdrawn, which would, so to speak, follow an indefinite progression of Becoming. And this universe is to manifest Equilibrium, not a static but a progressive equilibrium.3 Equilibrium, as he explains it, is each thing exactly in its place: each vibration, each movement, each and so on down the lineeach form, each activity, each element exactly in its place in relation to the whole.
This is quite interesting to me because Sri Aurobindo says the same thing: that nothing is bad, simply things are not in their placetheir place not only in space but in time, their place in the universe, beginning with the planets and stars, each thing exactly in its place. Then when each thing, from the most colossal to the most microscopic, is exactly in place, the whole Will PROGRESSIVELY express the Supreme, without having to be withdrawn and emanated anew. On this also, Sri Aurobindo based the fact that this present creation, this present universe, will be able to manifest the perfection of a divine worldwhat Sri Aurobindo calls the Supermind.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take the experience of Mind, for example: Mind, in the evolution of Nature, gradually emerging from its involution; well and this is a very concrete experience these initial mentalized forms, if we can call them that, were necessarily incomplete and imperfect, because Natures evolution is slow and hesitant and complicated. Thus these forms inevitably had an aspiration towards a sort of perfection and a truly perfect mental state, and this aspiration brought the descent of already fully conscious beings from the mental world who united with terrestrial formsthis is a very, very concrete experience. What emerges from the Inconscient in this way is an almost impersonal possibility (yes, an impersonal possibility, and perhaps not altogether universal, since its connected with the history of the earth); but anyway its a general possibility, not personal. And the Response from above is what makes it concrete, so to speak, bringing in a sort of perfection of the state and an individual mastery of the new creation. These beings in corresponding worlds (like the gods of the overmind,4 or the beings of higher regions) came upon earth as soon as the corresponding element began to evolve out of its involution. This accelerates the action, first of all, but also makes it more perfectmore perfect, more powerful, more conscious. It gives a sort of sanction to the realization. Sri Aurobindo writes of this in SavitriSavitri lives always on earth, with the soul of the earth, to make the whole earth progress as quickly as possible. Well, when the time comes and things on earth are ready, then the divine Mother incarnates with her full powerwhen things are ready. Then will come the perfection of the realization. A splendor of creation exceeding all logic! It brings in a fullness and a power completely beyond the petty shallow logic of human mentality.
People cant understand! To put oneself at the level of the general public may be all very well5 (personally I have never found it so, although its probably inevitable), but to hope that they will ever understand the splendor of the Thing. They have to live it first!
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards, I tried to understand (I tried to identify enough to be able to understand) and I got the feeling that he finds it will be much more powerful if you dont follow normal logical lines (Im elaborating a bitit wasnt quite like this); rather, if you like, it is better to be prophetic than didacticfling abroad the ideas, ploff! Then let people do what they can with them. I felt he was viewing this not only from the essential standpoint, but from the standpoint of the public, and he wanted to ensure that it doesnt become tiresomeat all costs, dont let it be tiresome. It can be bewildering, but not tiresome. Let them be hurled right into things strange and unknown things, perhaps, but. For instance (this is my own style, you can take it for what its worth), it would be better for people to say, Hes a madman, than to say, Hes a boring sermonizer. And all this was coming with his sense of humor, the way he has of saying, for example, that folly is closer to the Divine than reason!
I dont know, I didnt hear the beginning, but certainly everything dealing with physical events [of Sri Aurobindos life] will be expressed in a very reasonable and normal style so that there will be no danger of people saying, Hes a half-cracked visionary! I dont know, the first part of what you read to me was so good! Gusts of golden light kept coming. Perhaps you wanted to explain too much. You dont know what happened?
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You are going to do it all over? But it doesnt matter. You know what the logic of a book means to me!
You see, when I want a TRUE impression of a book, I open it at random; then I look at the first page, the last page sometimes I read the ending, then I go back to the beginningit doesnt matter where. What I want to know is whether the Force is there.
Ordinary logic Read! Anywhere, the middle of a sentence, it doesnt matter!
(after the reading)
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Well, then take them out! Why not? It may be contrary to logic, even to higher logic, but what do we care!
I will try to see. If I catch the thread, it will be all right but I must catch it.
0 1961-11-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It would be interesting, if it were possible thats precisely what I mean when I say: no links, no train of logic, no continuity; these are always, always mental. An inspiration, an intuition, a revelation always comes, poff!, leaving a score of things unsaidgaps to be filled in with spiritual experience.
If you start to explain, it falls flattheres no help for it.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Seen from the European angle, Sri Aurobindo represents an immense spiritual revolution, redeeming Matter and the creation, which to the Christian religion is fundamentally a fallits really unclear how what has come from God could become so bad, but anyway, better not be too logical! its a fall. The creation is a fall. And thats why they are far more easily convinced by Buddhism. I saw this particularly with Richard, whose education was entirely in European philosophy, with Christian and positivist influences; under these two influences, when he came into contact with Theons cosmic philosophy and later Sri Aurobindos revelation, he immediately explained, in his Wherefore of the Worlds, that the world is the fruit of DesireGods desire. Yet Sri Aurobindo says (in simple terms), God created the world for the Joy of the creation, or rather, He brought forth the world from Himself for the Joy of living an objective life. This was Theons thesis too, that the world is the Divine in an objective form, but for him the origin of this objective form was the desire to be. All this is playing with words, you understand, but it turns out that in one case the world is reprehensible and in the other it is adorable! And that makes all the difference. To the whole European mind, the whole Christian spirit, the world is reprehensible. And when THAT is pointed out to them, they cant stand it.
So the very normal, natural reaction against this attitude is to negate the spiritual life: lets take the world as it is, brutally, materially, short and sweet (since it all comes to an end with this short life), lets do all we can to enjoy ourselves now, suffer as little as possible and not think of anything else. Having said that life is a condemned, reprehensible, anti-divine thing, this is the logical conclusion. Then what to do? We dont want to do away with life, so we do away with the Divine.
Thats it exactly.
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I am seeing this book now. I see it. But when I leave here, with that whole throng around me and all that work to do, it will fade away. I would need to be very quiet, have nothing to do, and just write when it comes to me; because I cannot do things in a logical fashion I have never been able to, never. The experience must come suddenlya memory, an experience then I note it down, put it aside and leave it. And when another comes, the same thing. In this way there would be (smiling) no plan to the book! It would be very simple: no plan of ideas, no plan of development, nothing; simply a story.
For example, the importance of the departure2: how he was present the whole time I was away; how he guided my entire life in Japan; how. Of course, it would be seen in the mirror of my own experience, but it would be Sri Aurobindonot me, not my reactions: him; but through my experience because thats all I can speak of.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember reading something by Sri Aurobindo, I think, about certain philosophical or spiritual theories which held that there was only one Soul, or one Purusha (I dont remember what he called it); this Soul had the entire experience of the distortion of the universe, and this same Soul was also experiencing the Return. And it was pointed out with indisputable logic that if there really is but ONE Soul, then from the moment mastery is attainedregardless of whether it is by an individual or a world, a god or an ant the moment the power to change the distortion into the Truth exists, its all over and done with! The change automatically comes into force.
But then it was noted that some people did accomplish this Returnsince they lived it and described it but all the same, everything else continues to exist, to coexist. Therefore.
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Power logically, one has power over things.
I am (how shall I put it?) under way, on the border. But we would need some proof, wouldnt we? Some evidence. For ONESELF, things are unquestionably changing; I have had two or three or four FLASHES of objective changea change not only for my consciousness, but perceptible to other consciousnesses too. But its like a flash: Ah! And it vanishes in the time it takes to say Ah! So its nothing you can talk about.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
logically, of course, I should stay invisible until the day I appear in my new form. But it doesnt seem to be going quickly. For the moment, its not changing except for a kind of sensation of force entering the bodya sensation as if the new thing were PUSHING.8 Something very concrete.
Well see! We have to be patient.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, I think so. What happened to me in life is extremely logical, very, very logical (it wasnt me, I didnt decide anythingyou dont make decisions at the age of five). Each stage was prepared by the preceding one.
But then what is this consciousness we feel like a force inside us? For instance, sometimes in meditation it rises, then descends; its not fixed anywhere. What is this consciousness?
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I came out of it, I drew only one conclusion: Why am I not in such states more often? I waste my time with a mountain of external things: reading and writing letters, seeing people, doing this and that, putting some order into matter (theres a very strong tendency to bring orderan order of a higher logicinto SMALL material things)why? Then the reply came, not in words but very clearly: Dont worry (Mother laughs). It has to be this way and its a time of transition.
A time will come when it will all be done automatically, but right now that would be impossible. As it is, the way the Force acts is already making people here a little disorientedits verging on being unintelligible to them. In other words, its beginning to obey another law. For instance, to know at the exact moment what needs to be done or said, whats going to happenif theres the slightest bit of concern or concentration to know, it doesnt come. But if I am just like that, simply in a kind of inner immobility, then for all the little details of life, I know at the exact moment. What needs to be said comes: you say this. And not like an order from outside: it just comes, there it is. What needs to be said is there, the reply that needs to be sent is there; the person who enters, entersyoure not forewarned. You do things in a kind of automatic way. In the mental world, you think of something before doing it (it may happen very fast, but both movements are distinct); here it isnt like that.
0 1962-12-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since 1950, I must say, it has been the same thing EVERY year at this time. And with the same suggestion (which they make not only to me but to everybody, to all those who listen): Sri Aurobindo has gone, whats she doing here? She should just leave! And some of them are relentless: She WANTS to leave, they say. Not She must leave, but Shes GOING to leave; take it from me, shes leaving, nows the time, shes going to leave. And surely you can see that none of this is real, it just doesnt make sense. Sri Aurobindo left because he was disgusted. He has gone, so logically she must go too. Thats the picture.
Actively, theres only one thing to do: Its not up to me, its the Lord who decides. Its the Lord who acts, its the Lord who organizes everything and to top it off, its even the Lord who sends you away! That irks them more than anything! (Mother laughs.)
0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But for instance, if this had happened with people who know nothing of my outer life, they would have said, But Mother went outside, I saw her. I had experiences like that in Paris (it happened to someone else, not me personally). Someone swore that another person (who, by the way, was with me at the time) had come to him, spoken to him and even clapped him on the shoulderall the typical phenomena of ubiquity which in this case were explained by mental concentration. But this person had no idea that it was impossible (according to material logic) for the other one to have come to him, you see. So he quite simply and naturally said, But look, I saw him, I spoke to him, he clapped me on the shoulder!
So one doesnt say anything because. You see, when people are in Ignorance their immediate explanation is always the same:
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I will go on. If there are corrections, they can only come through the same process, because at this point to correct anyhow would spoil it all. There is also the mixing (for the logical mind) of future and present tenses but that too is deliberate. It all seems to come in another way. And well, I cant say, I havent read any French for ages, I have no knowledge of modern literatureto me everything is in the rhythm of the sound. I dont know what rhythm they use now, nor have I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Future Poetry. They tell me that Savitris verse follows a certain rule he explained on the number of stresses in each line (and for this you should pronounce in the pure English way, which somewhat puts me off), and perhaps some rule of this kind will emerge in French? We cant say. I dont know. Unless languages grow more fluid as the body and mind grow more plastic? Possible. Language too, maybe: instead of creating a new language, there may be transitional languages, as, for instance (not a particularly fortunate departure, but still), the way American is emerging from English. Maybe a new language will emerge in a similar way?
In my case it was from the age of twenty to thirty that I was concerned with French (before twenty I was more involved in vision: painting; and sound: music), but as regards language, literature, language sounds (written or spoken), it was approximately from twenty to thirty. The Prayers and Meditations were written spontaneously with that rhythm. If I stayed in an ordinary consciousness I would get the knack of that rhythm but now it doesnt work that way, it wont do!
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was all a living, palpable experience which lasted for a day and a half. The entire universal movement was LIVED and sensed. Not merely seen but lived and in what light! What stupendous power! With that kind of certitude at the core of everything something very odd. Its very difficult to express. But the experience lasted so long that it became perfectly familiar. To translate it into words I might say: it is the Supremes way of seeingof feeling, of living. I was living things the way He does. And it gives a power of certitude of realization. In the sense that what we are heading for is already here; the road we look back on, the road we have traveled and the road yet to travel, it all lives simultaneously. And with such logic! An eternal, wonderful super logic which makes it obviousness itselfeverything is obviousness itself. Struggle, effort, fear, all of that, oh, absolutely, absolutely nonexistent. And together with this, the explanation of the feeling we have of not wanting certain things any more: they leave the Manifest. You see, its like a sieve into which everything is thrown and where He to Him, everything, but everything is the same, but there is the vision of what He wants, and also of what is useless for what He wants or would prevent the fullness and totality of what He wants (contradictions of sorts, I dont know how to explain it)so with that He just goes this way (gesture of reswallowing) and it goes out of the Manifestation.
At the time I could have said it in a more understandable language, while now
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A real miracle Its only the mind that has the notion of miracle, because following its own logic, the mind decides that given this and that condition, this or that circumstance can or cannot be. But these are merely the minds limitations. Because from the Lords point of view, how could there be a miracle? All is but Himself objectifying Himself.
Here we come to the great problem of the road we travel, the eternal Road Sri Aurobindo refers to in Savitri. It is easy to imagine, of course, that what was first objectified had an inclination to objectification. The first point to accept, a logical point considering the principle of evolution, is that the objectification is progressive, it is not complete for all eternity. (silence) Its very hard to express, because we cannot free ourselves from our habit of seeing it as a finite quantity unfolding indefinitely and of thinking that only with a finite quantity can there be a beginning. We always have an idea (at least in our way of speaking) of a moment (laughing) when the Lord decides to objectify Himself. And put that way, the explanation is easy: He objectifies Himself gradually, progressively, with, as a result, a progressive evolution. But thats just a manner of speaking. Because there is no beginning, no end, yet there is a progression. The sense of sequence, the sense of evolution and progress comes only with the Manifestation. And only when we speak of the earth can we explain things truthfully and rationally, because the earth had a beginningnot in its soul, but in its material reality.
A material universe probably has a beginning, too.
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Basically, people with a very strict logic tell you, Why pray? Why aspire, why ask? The Lord does what He wills and will always do what He wills. Its perfectly obvious, it goes without saying, but this fervor, Lord, manifest Yourself! gives His manifestation a more intense vibration.
Otherwise He would never have made the world as it isthere is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the worlds intensity of aspiration to become again what it is.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That was when he brought the supramental Force into the mental consciousness. He would bring into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements1) a supramental formation, or power, or force, that instantly altered the organization. With immediate results that appear il logical because the process doesnt follow the course set by mental logic.
He said it himself: it happened when he was in possession or in conscious comm and of the supramental Force and Power and when he put it on a particular spot for a particular purpose. It was irrevocable, inevitable: the effect was absolute.
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The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
But flung like that! For a very long time the memory of the SENSATION remained: something that went like this (same gesture of a leaf falling) and simply set me down on the road. When I worked with Thon, the memory came back, and I saw it was an entity: what people in Europe call angels (what do they call it?) guardian angels, thats right. An entity. Thon had told me of certain worlds (worlds of the higher intellect I dont remember, he had named all the different planes), and in that world are winged beingswho have wings of their own free choice, because they find it pretty! And Madame Thon had always seen two such beings with me. Yet she knew me more than ten years later. And it appears they were always with me. So I took a look and, sure enough, there they were. One even tried to draw: he asked me to lend him my hand to do drawings. I lent my hand, but when I saw the drawing (he did one), I told him, The ones I do without you are much better! So that was the end of the matter!
0 1963-05-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I say this because Thon always announced the coming of the new world. He didnt speak of Supermind, he said: There shall be new heavens and a new earth. That was his explanation. So it may be that, originally, in the origin of the Catholic religion, they too had the idea that after forty days (it could also mean forty centuries, maybe forty eons or forty ages), there would come the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames that would enter those who are ready. I find this explanation more logical.
Of course, the bird, the white dove they speak of, could be the Universal. Maybe it would manifest openly as a result of that descent?
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards (because I am not concerned with all those things), I learned what he was doing: his Ecumenical Council and all his reforms, his attempt, in short, to bring everyone together as much as he could (all the Christians, at least), and the fact that he had become a friend of the Russians, etc. So then, I concentrated, because according to natural logic (the logic of Natures actions), the next Pope should be a horrible reactionaryin a word, it didnt bode well. I concentrated and tried to make things work out for the best. And I see that Sri Aurobindo did find the thing important, since he concentrated over there.
According to the little popular wisdom, it seems his successor is a man with still more progressive ideas. I saw his photo (but its a newspaper photo, theyre generally very bad: you cant have any contact, you only see this much [gesture on the surface]). The thing that struck me most is a sort of insincerity. A benevolent and ecclesiastical insincerityif you know what I mean?
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must now bring myself to write to you. With regret and sadness, I confess, since it is to inform you that we do not think it possible to publish your book Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. I confess that what prevented me from writing to you earlier is not so much the fear of causing you pain, for you are able to rise above the shock such news cannot but cause, as the fact that I knew it would be impossible to explain our reasons to you. Frankly, we cannot really understand this book. And how to explain the reasons for not understanding something? As for me, I often had the feeling of passing from one plane to another, from the level of fact to that of conjecture, from the level of logic (with defined terms as a starting point) to that of presupposition (within a coherence unconnected with the knowledge you offer). I know that all this is disputable. I also know or guess that behind those pages lies an entire lived experience, but one doesnt feel the reader can participate in it. For what reason? Once again, I cannot say. The readers blindness, quite possibly. The minds limitation, too. But a book must build a bridge, pierce the screen, and there are doubtless cases in which doing so no longer depends on the author. I must therefore return this manuscript to you.
(signed: P.A.L.)
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is clearly (according to external logic) a new way of dying that must be possibleno longer death as we regard it. But that for the moment, all we could say would be speculative, not a concrete experience.
Well see.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you that the only process Ive known, and which recurred several times in my life, is to renounce an error. Something you believe to be truewhich probably was true for a timeon which you partly base your action, but which, in actuality, was only one opinion. You thought it was a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, and your action (part of your action) was based on it, so that everything proceeded from it automatically. Till suddenly an experience, a circumstance or an intuition warns you that your finding isnt so true as it appeared to be (!) Then there is a whole period of observation and study (sometimes too it comes as a revelation, a massive proof), and then its not just your idea or false knowledge that needs to be changed, but also all its consequences, perhaps an entire way of acting on a particular point. At that moment, you get a sort of sensation, something that feels like a sensation of renunciation; that is to say, you have to undo a whole collection of things you had built. Sometimes its quite considerable, sometimes a very small thing, but the experience is the same: the movement of a force, a dissolving power, and the resistance of all that must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is the contact of the movement of dissolution with the corresponding resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of renunciation.
I saw that very recently; its something insignificant, the circumstances are completely unimportant in themselves (its only the study of the whole that makes it interesting). Its the only phenomenon that has recurred several times in my life and which for that reason I know well. And as the being progresses, the power of dissolution increases, becomes more and more immediate, and the resistance lessens. But I remember the time when the resistances were at their highest (more than half a century ago), and it never worked in any other way: it was always something outside menot outside my consciousness but outside my will something that resists the will. I never had the feeling I had to renounce things but I felt as if I had to exert a pressure on them to dissolve them. Whereas now, the farther I go, the more imperceptible the pressure becomes, its immediate: as soon as the Force that comes to dissolve a collection of things manifests, theres no resistance, everything gets dissolved; on the contrary, theres hardly any sense of liberation theres something that is amused every time and says, Ah, again! How many times you limit yourself. How many times you think youre constantly moving on, smoothly, without stopping, and how many times you set a little limit to your action (it isnt a big limit because its a very little thing within an immense whole, but its a limit nonetheless). And then when the Force acts to dissolve the limit, at first you feel liberated, you feel a joy; but now its not even like that any more: there is a smile. Because its not a sense of liberationyou very simply remove a stone that stands in your way.
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Immediately, there came a massive descent, and everything was blissful I said to myself, Lord, its up to You. Its up to You to have me here, its up to You to have me act; I dont act, You are the one who acts. The result is up to You, but as far as I can see, if I am allowed to see, I dont find that logical!
Then I was told (but not with words), very clearly and very strongly, that it was a transition necessary for your integral development INTEGRAL. And that I shouldnt worry.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The thing is new to me. Thats what I told you the other day: first an experience, but an experience something that takes HOLD of the entire being, the entire body, everything, everything, like this (grasping gesture) and keeps you in its hold. And it works. It works everywhere in the cells: absolutely everywhere, in the consciousness, in the sensation, in the cells. Then it settles, as if passing through a very fine sieve, and it falls back to the other sideas words. But not always arranged in sentences (its very odd): two words here, three words there (Mother seems to show patches of color here and there). Then I keep very still, I dont stirabove all I dont think, dont stirsilence. Then, little by little, the words start a dance, and when they form a reasonably coherent sentence, I write it down. But generally it isnt final. If I wait a little longer (even while doing something else), after a time it comes: a sentence that has a far more logical and striking existence. And if I wait still longer, it becomes more precise, until finally it comes with a feeling, Now this is it. Thats what happened with the English note: Now this is it. Good, so I write it down.
I never had that before. Everything had to fall silent (I mean even the most active and material outer mind), I had to get into the habit, when my experience comes, of not stirringnot stirring, nothing stirring, everything like this (gesture in suspense), waiting.
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything is possible to me, you know, absolutely everything, even the seemingly most contradictory thingsreally, I am totally unable to raise a mental or logical or reasonable objection either to this or to that. But the question (Mother leaves her sentence unfinished). That is to say, the Lords Will is very clear to Him, and (laughing) the whole thing is to unite with that Will and know it.
It had always seemed to me that way [the earth as a symbolic point of concentration], but I am so convinced that Sri Aurobindo saw things more truly and totally than anyone did that, naturally, when he says something, you tend to consider the problem!
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We can conceive it was a particular necessity within the whole, of course. But these are all conceptions, its still something mental I recently had in my hands a quotation from Sri Aurobindo in which he said that there is no problem the human mind cannot solve if it wants to. (Laughing) There is no problem that the mind cannot solve if it applies itself to it! But I dont care, I have no need of mental logicno need. And it would have no effect on my action thats not what I want, not at all! Its only because there is that increasingly acute contradiction between the Truth and what is. Its becoming painfully acute. You know, that suffering, that general misery is becoming almost unbearable.
There was a time when I looked at all that with a smilea long time. For years and years it was a smile, the way you smile at a childish question. Now, I dont know why it has come it has been THRUST on me like a sort of acute anguishwhich certainly is necessary to get out of the problem.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everyone is born with (what can I call it?) some special twist (laughing)I know my own twist, I know it quite well! (I dont talk about it because it isnt enjoyable.) But thats what remains last of all. With our idiotic human logic, we think, Thats what should go first, but its not true: its what goes last! Even when it all becomes clear, clear (gesture above), even when you have all the experiences, the habit stays on and it keeps coming back. So you push it back: it rises again from the subconscient; you chase it away: it comes back from outside. So if for one minute you arent on your guard, it shows up againoh, what a nuisance! But Sri Aurobindo wrote about this somewhere, I dont remember the words; I read it very recently, and when I read it, I thought, Ah, there it is! He knew it was that way. So it comforted me, and I thought, All right, then. He said that he who has purified his mind and so on and so forth, who is ready to work towards Perfection (its in the Synthesis, The Yoga of Self-Perfection), He is ready and patient for lapses and the recurrence of old errors, and he works quietly, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leave. I thought, Very well, thats how it is now. I am patiently waiting for the time when (though I dont miss any opportunity to catch them by the tip of their nose, or the tip of their ear, and to say, Ha, youre still here!).
The first thing is to detach your consciousness, thats most important. And to say: I-AM-NOT-THIS, its something that has been ADDED, placed to enable me to touch Matter but it isnt me. And then if you say, That is me (gesture upward), youll see that you will be happy, because it is lovelylovely, luminous, sparkling. Its really fine, it has an exceptional quality. And thats you. But you have to say, That is me, and be convinced that its you. Naturally, the old habits come to deny it, but you must know that theyre old habits, nothing else, they dont matter that is you.
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, as soon as we express things we enter the mind, and as soon as we enter the mind theres that kind of logic, which is frightful because it is all-powerful: if everything has already been existing and coexisting from all eternity, how can you change one thing into another? How can anything at all change?
We are told (Sri Aurobindo himself has just said it) that to the Lords consciousness there is neither past nor time nor movement nor anythingeverything is. In order to translate, we say from all eternity, which is nonsense, but anyway, everything IS. So everything is (Mother folds her arms), and then its all over, theres nothing more to be done! You understand, this conception, or rather this manner of speaking (because its only a manner of speaking) nullifies the sense of progress, nullifies evolution, nullifies We are told: its part of the Determinism that you should strive to progressyes, all this is rhetorical gibberish.
0 1964-04-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, mon petit, yesterday or the day before, I heard something I dont exactly know what it isit isnt music, I mean it isnt the notation of some musical instrument: its the notation of a vibration of I cant say, I didnt understand.2 But in it At first, you feel exactly as if you had entered a madhouse: its completely incoherent, disjointed, and everything is unexpected because there is no logicabsolutely nothing mental. So you go from one sound to another, without any transition, and your first impression is exactly like its madness. But if you listen, now and then theres a sound, which isnt the sound of a musical instrument absolutely wonderful! But it lasts one second. You would like it to continuepfft! gone. And now and then there is a voice, quite like the human voice, you can almost hear words, there seem to be wordswhich made me think that the sound of our voice has its origin elsewhere (below or above, I dont know; where those vibrations come from I cannot say). And after a while, I saw that something in the being [Mothers being] was I cant say interested, it was something that enjoyed it, that didnt exactly have a pleasant sensation, but almost felt a need for the unforeseen, an unforeseen beyond all that we can imagine: disjointed, no logic, no sense, nothing. It SOUNDS like chaos, but all of a sudden I felt it wasnt chaos, it responded to another law. And when it came towards the end, I really wanted it to go on for a long time.
At first, you start laughing, you make fun of it, you giggle as if you were faced with something absolutely farcical. But now and then, oh! And youve hardly had the time to appreciate it when its already gonea marvel. A marvel: a sound the like of which I have never heard, which no instrument can produce.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No powers I knew very well I had no powers! And I couldnt have cared less because I understood perfectly well that what is being attempted now isnt miraculous events at all, but the logicAL and normal and inevitable CONSEQUENCE of the supramental transformation that is the whole point. That I know and knew, and thats why I didnt even bother about powers; anyway it hadnt even remotely occurred to me that I might work a miracle for the doctor or for this or that other person who approaches me I didnt think about it, it didnt enter my consciousness. Only, on the 18th, through that occasion it entered my consciousness, and so I asked the question to find out why I never thought about it: Why? And I was positively told: You MUST NOT wield powers, because thats not the way things should be done.
I do understand, but
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
God knows, never, not one minute in my life, even when things were the darkest, the blackest, the most negative, the most painful, not once did the thought come, I would like to die. And ever since I had the experience of psychic immortality, the immortality of consciousness, that is, in 1902 or 3, or 4 at the latest (sixty years ago now), all fear of death went away. Now the bodys cells have the sense of their immortality. There was also a time when I almost had a sort of curiosity about death; it was satisfied by my two experiences in which, according to the surface illusion, my body was dead, while, within, I had a wonderfully intense life (the first time, it was in the vital, the other time, way up above2). So that even that curiosity (I cant call it curiosity), even that question is no longer asked by the cells. But the possibility does present itself: according to the ordinary outer logic, if this isnt transformed, it must necessarily come to an end. And always, always, I receive the same answer, which isnt an answer with words, but an answer with a knowledge (how can I put it?), a FACTUAL knowledge: Its no solution. To say things in quite a banal way, this is the answer: Its no solution.
So we are after another solution, since death isnt considered to be a solution. And its obvious that it is no solution.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, to our logic (which is obviously stupid, but anyway), it means that the goal is still very far away, that the world isnt ready.
You see, all of a sudden, through the intensity of the aspiration, of that sort of thirst for the Thing, contact is madecontact is made; it isnt even a contact between two different things, it is That which is all. But it is in Time that the Thing is expressed, and then it doesnt last, so much so that even the resulting effect doesnt seem to be able to last. Although there is something there that contradicts: the effect is lasting, but imperceptible as long as it isnt general; so immediately its a translation into the world of Time, Space, and so on.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And completely, completely outside thought. The thought comes AFTER. For instance, for this dream, when you asked me the question, I said, logically, since the vibration is here (indicates below the feet), it must be a memory. And with a kind of certainty because because the perception is perfectly impersonal.
Its an extraordinarily sensitive mechanism, and with an almost infinite field of receptivity (gesture of gradation).
0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lets take the sense of form, for example (I am giving one example among many others). Evolution is openly moving towards diminishing the difference between the female and the male forms: the ideal thats being created makes female forms more masculine and gives male forms a certain grace and suppleness, with the result that they increasingly resemble what I had seen all the way up, beyond the worlds of the creation, on the threshold, if I can call it that, of the world of form. At the beginning of the century, I had seen, before even knowing of Sri Aurobindos existence and without having ever heard the word supramental or the idea of it or anything, I had seen there, all the way up, on the threshold of the Formless, at the extreme limit, an ideal form that resembled the human form, which was an idealized human form: neither man nor woman. A luminous form, a form of golden light. When I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote, I said, But what I saw was the supramental form! Without having the faintest idea that it might exist. Well, the ideal of form we are now moving towards resembles what I saw. Thats why I said: since there is an evolutionary concentration on this point, on the physical, bodily form, it must mean that Nature is preparing something for that Descent and that embodimentit seems logical to me. Thats what I meant by an improved physical form.
The other point is quite secondary, its incidental, it isnt in the line of evolution. I am only saying that its a method that CAN be used, and it has been used in the past.
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats why certain minds have postulated that the creation was the result of an error. But we find all the possible conceptions: the perfect creation, then a fault that introduced the error; the creation itself as a lower movement, which must end since it began; then the conception of the Vedas according to what Sri Aurobindo told us about it, which was a progressive and infinite unfolding or discoveryindefinite and infiniteof the All by Himself. Naturally, all these are human translations. For the moment, as long as we express ourselves humanly, its a human translation; but depending on the initial stand of the human translator (that is, a stand that accepts the primordial error, or the accident in the creation, or the conscious supreme Will since the beginning, in a progressive unfolding), the conclusions or the descents in the yogic attitude are different. There are the nihilists, the Nirvanists and the illusionists, there are all the religions (like Christianity) that accept the devils intervention in one form or another; and then pure Vedism, which is the Supremes eternal unfolding in a progressive objectification. And depending on your taste, you are here or there or here, and there are nuances. But according to what Sri Aurobindo felt to be the most total truth, according to that conception of a progressive universe, you are led to say that, every minute, what takes place is the best possible for the unfolding of the whole. The logic of it is absolute. And I think that all the contradictions can only stem from a more or less pronounced tendency for this or that position, that other position; all the minds that accept the intrusion of a fault or an error and the resulting conflict between forces pulling backward and forces pulling forward, can naturally dispute the possibility. But you are forced to say that for someone who is spiritually attuned to the supreme Will or the supreme Truth, what happens is necessarily, every instant, the best for his personal realizationthis is true in all cases. The unconditioned best can only be accepted by one who sees the universe as an unfolding, the Supreme growing more and more conscious of Himself.
(silence)
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its rather strange, this eyesight. There always seems to be a veil between me and things, constantly; I am so used to it; I see everything very well, but as if there were a slight veil. Then all of a sudden, without any apparent reason (an outwardly logical reason, I mean), a thing becomes clear, precise, sharp (gesture: leaping to the eyes)the next minute, its over. Sometimes its a word in a letter or written somewhere, sometimes its an object. And it is a different quality of vision, a vision (how can I explain it?) as if light were shining from within things instead of shining on them: it isnt a reflected light. It isnt luminous, it isnt like a candle, for instance, or a lamp, not that, but instead of being lit by a projected light, things have their own light, which doesnt radiate.
Its becoming more and more frequent, but with perfect il logic. Which means that I dont understand the logic of it at all; I dont know why this thing [lights up] rather than that thing, or that rather than this: suddenly something leaps to the eyesAh!and its gone in a flash. And the vision is so precise! Extraordinary, with the full understanding of the thing seen while you are seeing it. Otherwise, everything is as if behind is it a veil? I dont know.
Sometimes (often), the same thing happens to me with speech. I feel as if I am speaking from very far away or from behind a woolly substance that blunts the precision of vibrations. In its extreme form, its because of this that I sometimes dont hearnothing: when some people speak to me, I hear absolutely nothing. With others, I hear the drone of a sound devoid of meaning. And with other people, I hear EVERYTHING they say. But its a different way of hearing: what I hear is the vibration of their thought and thats what makes it very clear.
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the childs logical conclusion: Oh, then I have to want what He wants thats the point. Thats what I said some time ago: one must be in the It pleases Him; not only in what is objectified, but in That which objectifies.
Its put in a childlike way, but its so true and so simple! The more you see things in detail, the more you notice that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, even more than that, if you are tense or hurt, or pained or bothered, its simply because things arent exactly as you had told yourself they should bethis is for intelligent people; for less intelligent people, its a sort of desire: they want things to be that way (they feel it much more than they think it), and then when things happen in another way, oh, they get a shock. But if they had wanted it beforehand, it would have been a pleasureexactly the same occurrence. The occurrence would be exactly the same. If they had wanted it beforehand, they would have said, Ah, at last this has been realized, and just because they didnt think of it, because they didnt see it: Oh, how horrible! Almost everywhere and almost constantly thats how it is. I see it more and more in the small movement of every minute.
0 1965-06-09, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have a whole mantra [besides the main Mantra], I told you, for years now, and it is extremely complete: it applies to all necessities and all occasions, its a long series. But for some time it has become very spontaneous, too, and very self-living: when I want to see quite concretely where someone stands (someone meditating in front of me, for instance), I recite the mantra (within, of course) and I watch the reactions, because the mantra deals with the surrender of all the parts of the being and all the modes of life: its very complete. So according to the reactions [in Mothers centers], I see very clearly. The other day, when X came, I did it (it was the first time I had done it with him), I did it, and when I came to a certain point (Mother smiles) he couldnt bear it! He sort of stiffened, bowed to me and got up. Before that, he had remained very silent, very quiet. But that (Mother laughs) You see, I invoke the Lord and ask Him to manifest His various ways of being or realizations (its not taken in a mental sense, not at all), but when I said I say many things, but up to that point he had been quiet, silent, still, and at one point (because it comes in a logical succession), I said, Manifest Your Knowledgehe felt uneasy, as if he felt he was being thrown out of himself! So I tried to calm that down, but he couldnt bear itafter five minutes, he got up and left. A real unease; because, as for me, I am inside people (I am everywhere, of course), I feel just as if it took place in my own body.
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0 1965-10-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I do not yet have proof of the reconstruction of something that had disappeared (that had been amputated or broken), I cant say, but logically its the same thing.
Well talk about it again when we have the proof.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Youre adding your own unnecessary suffering to all the others!I dont see your logic.
Thats the EXTRAORDINARY lesson Sri Aurobindo gave us, and thats how I took it. When he left, the first thing I said was, Now everyone may die, it doesnt matter in the slightest. And it was absolutely true, and since that day it has been absolutely true.
0 1966-02-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
logically, yes.
According to the story (if it can be called a story) that Thon told, it was Falsehood that created Death. But according to what weve just read, Death would be what created Falsehood. Obviously it must be neither this way nor that! It must be something else, which we should find.
0 1967-01-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems to me to be the legacy of primordial habits the habits of Matter. This Matter, of course, comes from total unconsciousness, and throughout the ages and all the ways of being, it returns to total consciousness it goes from one extreme to the other; well, its these habits of static immobility that give this need for trance. It shouldnt be necessary. Only (how can I explain?), logically, as things are, it depends on the balance between the bodys capacity of receptivity and its external activity: its obviously far more receptive when it is immobile, because its energies are occupied with the transformation.
There is also another thing which could change the course of events: its that the vital is becoming more and more receptive and collaborative. This whole vital zone, which was the zone of revolt and deliberate opposition to the divine transformation, is becoming more and more collaborative, and with its collaboration (because this vital zone is the zone of movement, action, energy put to use), with its conscious collaboration, the methods of transformation may become different (its something I have been studying these last few days). It may change the methods. But thats a whole world to be learned.
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you know little S.?1 Have you ever spoken to her? Ive heard she beats sixteen-and seventeen-year-old boys at logic and new mathematics. I saw her today. She is obviously quite remarkably intelligent. And yesterday was her birthday. You know that Y. (her adoptive mother) has gone into hospital; and when she went she asked me to send something to Thoth every day (you know who Thoth2 is dont you?), because it seems that whenever he receives something from me, he is quite calm for two hours. Very well. So I sent something the first day (that was yesterday). And yesterday was little S.s birthday. I thought that rather than for her to fetch from the secretary the fruit I give for Thoth, it would be better if she came to see me at ten and Id give her her card and her bouquet of flowers at the same time. But then, everything is disorganized and not very efficient: she wasnt informed. When she came it was too late because it was 10:30 or 11 while I had said before ten. So she wrote me a letter. I saw the girl today, she is really very intelligent, no doubt about that, and here is her letter. (Note that when she came to live with Y., she knew French because she had learned it with the Sistersshe was a pupil at the Mission some three years agoand for three years Y. has been giving her French lessons.) So here is the childs letter:
(translation)
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But now, with this new logic and new mathematics, a whole set of new signs is beginning to be universal, that is to say, the same signs express the same ideas or things in all countries, whatever language is used in the country, quite independently.
These new thoughts and new experiences, this new logic and new mathematics, are now taught in higher studies, but all the primary and secondary studies have remained in the old formula, so I have been very seriously thinking of opening primary and secondary schools in Auroville, based on the new systemas a trial.
But how is it done? Its a problem that interests me very much: how do you catch this new expression?
0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is that sort of mental logic which wants yes, which wants things to be deduced one from the other according to that logic, and so they have arrived at impossible questions.
(the text of the questions:)
0 1967-05-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, thats because the natural tendency here is against the Muslims, so those who think they are superior say one should be above ones dislikes: Lets be with them. (Mother laughs) Theres the logic of it.
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0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When it comes to languages, its very interesting. Those are things that come, stay for an hour or two, then go away; they are like lessons, things to be learned. And so, one day, there came the question of languages, of the different languages. Those languages were formed progressively (probably through usage, until, as you said, one day someone took it into his head to fix it in a logical and grammatical way), but behind those languages, there are identical experiencesidentical in their essence and there are certainly sounds that correspond to those experiences; you find those sounds in all languages, the different sounds with minor differences. One day (for a long time, more than an hour), it unfolded with all the evidence to support it, for all languages. Unfortunately, I couldnt see clearly, it was at night, so I couldnt note it down and it went away. But it should be able to come back. It was really interesting (Mother tries to recall the experience.) There were even languages I had never heard: Ive heard many European languages; in India, several Indian languages, chiefly Sanskrit; and then, Japanese. And there were languages I had never heard. It was all there. And there were sounds, certain sounds that come from all the way up, sounds (how can I explain?), sounds we might call essential. And I saw how they took shape and were distorted in languages (Mother draws a sinuous descending line that branches out). Sounds like the affirmative and the negativewhat, for us, is yes and noand also the expression of certain relationships (Mother tries to remember). But the interesting point was that it came with all the words, lots of words I didnt know! And at that time I knew them (it comes from a subconscient somewhere), I knew all those words.
At the same time, there was a sort of capacity or possibility, a state in which one was able to understand all languages; that is, every language was understood because of its connection with that region (gesture to the heights, at the origin of sounds). There didnt seem to be any difficulty in understanding any language. There was a sort of almost graphic explanation (same sinuous descending line branching out) showing how the sound had been distorted to express this or that or
0 1967-08-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I meet almost everyone there. I told you that you are there quite regularly, and we work. As for you, you dont remember. There are others who remember, but their memory is (Mother twists her finger slightly) just slightly off, that is, not identically what I saw. And when they tell me, my impression is, yes, its because of the transcription in their brain. The objective reality of the material world stems from the fact that if you see the same object ten times over, ten times it looks like itself, with differences that are logical, or that may be, for instance, differences of wear and tear but there too its like that! If you study carefully, even in the physical world no two people see things in exactly the same way. There, it may be more pronounced, but it seems to be a similar phenomenon.
The explanation becomes very simple and very easy when you enter the consciousness in which its the material reality that becomes an illusionits illusory, inexact: the inner reality is truer. Then, in that case, its simple. Maybe its only our mind that is astonished?
0 1967-10-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the great difficulty is mental observation: the observing mind (not a personal mind: an observing Mind), and that makes things much more difficult. If one can keep the mind busy, its easier. Because the mind is something extremely hard, dry, positive, phew! and logical, reasonableits dreadful. Dreadful. And yet, to put things at their best, the general waves are full (especially now, in our time) full of doubtsuch a foul and obstinate doubt! They treat all this as fantastic imagination.
You are led to tell the mind, Id rather be mistaken this way than be mistaken in your way.
0 1968-02-14, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you know how the Hindu spiritual tradition was convincedwas forced to be convincedof the multiplicity of souls (they dont say souls), of the divine being in individuals? Because those people were very logical: had there been a single soul, that is, a single supreme consciousness, anywhere, at any time, once it had experienced liberation (flight into Nirvana, the renunciation of everything, the whole illusion of life and creation), if there had been only one soul, the whole thing would have been over! But as it happens, a number of beings went through the experience, and it made no difference to the world (as a whole, at any rate). So they reached the conclusion that there were perhaps as many souls as there were individuals, and that they communicate only up above, not down here.
When someone said that to me, it quite amused me!
0 1968-03-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning again, I spent some time looking, seeing, and I seemed to ask the Divine, Why do You enjoy denying Yourself? You understand, for our logic to be satisfied, we say, all that is dark, all that is ugly, all that isnt living, all that isnt harmoniousnone of that is divine. But how could it be so? Its only an attitude for action. So putting myself in the consciousness of action, I said, But why do You enjoy being like that! (Mother laughs)
It was a very concrete experience of the cells, with the feeling (not feelingnei ther feeling nor sensation), a sort of perception of being on the very edge of the great secret. All of a sudden, a group of cells or a bodily function finds it amusing to go wrongwhy? What meaning does that hold? And the answer was, its as if all that helped break limits.
0 1968-03-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its logical. Thats all.
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0 1968-06-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you in the past that I used to see you very often; now my nights have been cut down a lot, because I have work to do till very late and I get up very early, so I dont have much nighttime left. But I always find you in the same place, and there, you are very active and wholly conscious. Its the connection between that part of your being and the waking part thats missingoh, sometimes its nothing at all, a tiny little You know, as if there were a void between two things. Otherwise you are very conscious, even working very logically: its something going on, developing. And its from a terrestrial standpoint, it has to do with terrestrial organization. I always see you in the same place, we always work together in the same place. It seems to be very logical.
I wondered Several times Ive wondered if it wasnt for your own good because if you became very conscious of that part of your beingone is so free, so peaceful, so powerful that sometimes it makes one feel disgusted with the earth! Several times Ive wondered if it wasnt for your own good.
0 1968-10-19, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, I remain for hours and hours on end without speaking, and its like a development unfolding logically, but This cough must be deliberate, to prevent me from speaking. Because I see things clearly. One seems to waste ones time speaking.
I remain, I can remain for hours, hours and hours like that, watching the developmenta development at once universal and personal; but personal, there is so to speak no person, its something curious. Theres a series of states of consciousness being organized.
0 1968-10-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now and then, for not even a few minutes (its a few seconds), there is a clear perception of the true Identity, which is perfect Harmony, and then all disorders cease to exist but materially they exist! Take a very simple instance: my teeth are all loose in my mouthit s a FACTand its true that logically, such a condition should be very painful: its not. And I see that it is so because of a Presence that I understand very well. But it doesnt get cured, far from it! Its incurable.1
This physical is truly a mystery.
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
4) Should we use methods of organization of proven efficiency, but based on human logic and the use of machines?
This is a makeshift to which we should submit ourselves only very provisionally.
0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the groups of cells, all the cellular organizations have to do their not surrender, a complete self-abandon, in complete trust. Thats indispensable. For some, its the spontaneous, inevitable, constant movement; with others, it comes as soon as theres a difficulty; yet others need to be churned a little in order to learn. So then, the various functions are taken up in turn, in a marvelously logical order, following the bodys functioning. Its something marvelous, only the body is a poor thing, very poor thing thats very true.
Some even (as I have said) spontaneously repeat the mantra. Spontaneously, the mantra goes on and on being repeated, sometimes with a very great intensity; sometimes there is a sort of (do you know the English word shyness?), a shyness to invoke the Divine, so strongly That is felt. But it meltsit melts in an awareness, a conscious perception of such a Clemency! Unbelievableunbelievable, unthinkable, its so wonderful. (In its very small human manifestation, thats what has become goodness, but thats a distortion.) A marvel! The cells are in ecstasy before this vibration. But then, you see and hear this CLAMOR of protest, misery, sufferingits a clamor all over the earth, and that makes the cells feel a little ashamed.
0 1969-04-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At night, for instance, the body is taller, and its active, it does things (its this subtle body that does things, is active and has an existence of which it is wholly conscious), and its different from this (Mother touches the skin of her hands), but in the subtle physical its a PHYSICAL body, and its already something permanent, in the sense that you REMAIN the same, you find things again as you left them (they exist permanently, though they arent visible with the ordinary vision, but they have a logical and continuous existence). So, there, the form is the true expression the true expression of the state of consciousness; while here, the form is the result of (Mother laughs) we could say of all the falsehood spread about in the consciousness.
People who see me at night (those who have this vision in the subtle world) dont see me like this (Mother points to her body): they see me as I am, and they tell methey say, Oh, but you are like this, like that.
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Success in the world always depends on a (how should I put it?) a diminishing and a personifying of things. For instance, for me there would be nothing surprising to his working miracles, because something which, to a consciousnessan enlightened consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness is a logical consequence, becomes miraculous to an unenlightened consciousness. So for him to make a name for himself as a miracle-worker wouldnt be surprising in the least. He may be destined to become
Its amusing! (Mother laughs)
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What he says about the avatar and the yogi is logically true.
But there may be a secret beyond mens understanding except and only if they wholly abdicate their humanity.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, logically, or psycho logically rather, its an error to build around first, and the center afterwards.
Of course!
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I clearly see, I clearly see in each one whats like this (twisted gesture). Its not that I am surprised, but My logic is this: Yes, its very good, you are all very nice, you work for human unityat least be united! Do you understand?
But I am sure that Paolo would be only too happy to get along with R.
0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Obviously, logically you are right, because the healing capacity is there; so if one has the healing capacity, there is the capacity to remedy wear and tear. Obviously.
But all possibilities are there! Its only the question of Matter having to adapt to the infiltration of another force.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
logically, there has to be a Mother of Ignorance.
(Satprem to Sujata:) What did the Mother of Ignorance do?
0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(At that precise moment, Satprem strongly had the following thought, which he almost told Mother: If a caterpillars vision were suddenly changed into a mans vision, it would clearly mean a bursting of its whole logic.)
(long silence)
0 1970-07-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This creation gives you a clear impression that nothing is arbitrary, that there is a sort of divine logic behind, which isnt like our human logic, but highly superior to our logic (but it exists), and that logic was fully satisfied when I saw that.
Its odd, it was also when R. was here that I had that experience of the supramental light going through within [Mother] without causing any shadow.1 R. has something like that, I dont know. And this time, its really interesting. I was quite interested. It was there, tranquil, and saying to me, But youre after well, here it is, this is it!
0 1971-04-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am such a different person that I dont remember my past life anymore! I was asked a question this morning: I was blank! I was asked whether the first time I came to Pondicherry I came by train or by boat.1 The second time I still remember [by boat]. logically its by train; but its like giving an answer concerning someone else.
An impression of something that belongs to someone elseits quite curious. Usually its the body that retains the continuity of the being, but that continuity belongs to such a material and superficial realm that (Mother shakes her head) unbelievable. All that seems its as if I were speaking of someone else. Its curious. No senseno sense at all of the personality. Someone whose history I know well, thats all. Its quite curious. I didnt know it had gone so far.
0 1971-08-07, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its not mental. They are circumstances that depend on one another, in a completely invisible way outwardly, without any mental logic, and yet as though connected to each other.
If you are conscious, really conscious of that, thats how you can change circumstances.
0 1971-10-06, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it HAS to take place, Mother. Its not just faith, its a logical outcome.
It all depends (Mother touches her hands) on the proportion of what needs to be eliminated, you see. And the capacity for transformation.
0 1972-05-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All our common sense, our human logic, our practical sensecollapsed, finished! No longer effective. No longer realistic. They are no longer relevant.
A new world, really.
02.01 - Metaphysical Thought and the Supreme Truth, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is only if there is a greater consciousness beyond Mind and that consciousness is accessible to us that we can know and enter into the ultimate Reality. Intellectual speculation, logical reasoning as to whether there is or is not such a greater consciousness cannot carry us very far. What we need is a way to get the experience of it, to reach it, enter into it, live in it.
If we can get that, intellectual speculation and reasoning must fall necessarily into a very secondary place and even lose their reason for existence. Philosophy, intellectual expression of the
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Thought, intellect, the logical reason came to be regarded more and more as the highest means and even the highest end; in philosophy, Thought is the be-all and the end-all. It is by intellectual thinking and speculation that the truth is to be discovered; even spiritual experience has been summoned to pass the tests of the intellect, if it is to be held valid - just the reverse of the
Indian position. Even those who see that mental Thought must be overpassed and admit a supramental "Other", do not seem to escape from the feeling that it must be through mental Thought, sublimating and transmuting itself, that this other Truth must be reached and made to take the place of the mental limitation and ignorance. And again Western thought has ceased to be dynamic; it has sought after a theory of things, not after realisation. It was still dynamic amongst the ancient Greeks, but for moral and aesthetic rather than spiritual ends. Later on, it became yet more purely intellectual and academic; it became intellectual speculation only without any practical ways and means for the attainment of the Truth by spiritual experiment, spiritual discovery, a spiritual transformation. If there were not this difference, there would be no reason for seekers like yourself to turn to the East for guidance; for in the purely intellectual field, the Western thinkers are as competent as any Eastern sage.
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its unthought logic of Reality's acts
Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the very outset when and where the Many has come out into manifestation in the Onehere also it must be remembered that we are using a temporal figure in respect of an extra-temporal factthere and then is formed a characteristic range of reality which is a perfect equation of the one and the many: that is to say, the one in becoming many still remains the same immaculate one in and through the many, and likewise the many in spite of its manifoldnessand because of the special quality of the manifoldnessstill continues to be the one in the uttermost degree. It is the world of fundamental realities. Sri Aurobindo names it the Supermind or Gnosis. It is something higher than but distantly akin to Plato's world of Ideas or Noumena (ideai, nooumena) or to what Plotinus calls the first divine emanation (nous). These archetypal realities are realities of the Spirit, Idea-forces, truth-energies, the root consciousness-forms, ta cit, in Vedic terminology. They are seed-truths, the original mother-truths in the Divine Consciousness. They comprise the fundamental essential many aspects and formulations of an infinite Infinity. At this stage these do not come into clash or conflict, for here each contains all and the All contains each one in absolute unity and essential identity. Each individual formation is united with and partakes of the nature of the one supreme Reality. Although difference is born here, separation is not yet come. Variety is there, but not discord, individuality is there, not egoism. This is the first step of Descent, the earliest one-not, we must remind ourselves again, historically but psycho logically and logically the descent of the Transcendent into the Cosmic as the vast and varied Supermindcitra praketo ajania vibhw of the Absolute into the relational manifestation as Vidysakti (Gnosis).
The next steps, farther down or away, arrive when the drive towards differentiation and multiplication gathers momentum becomes accentuated, and separation and isolation increase in degree and emphasis. The lines of individuation fall more and more apart from each other, tending to form closed circles, each confining more and more exclusively to itself, stressing its own particular and special value and function, in contradistinction to or even against other lines. Thus the descent or fall from the Supermind leads, in the first instance, to the creation or appearance of the Overmind. It is the level of consciousness where the perfect balance of the One and the Many is disturbed and the emphasis begins to be laid on the many. The source of incompatibility between the two just starts here as if Many is notOne and One is not Many. It is the beginning of Ignorance, Avidya, Maya. Still in the higher hemisphere of the Overmind, the sense of unity is yet maintained, although there is no longer the sense of absolute identity of the two; they are experienced as complementaries, both form a harmony, a harmony as of different and distinct but conjoint notes. The Many has come forward, yet the unity is also there supporting it-the unity is an immanent godhead, controlling the patent reality of the Many. It is in the lower hemisphere of the Overmind that unity is thrown into the background half-submerged, flickering, and the principle of multiplicity comes forward with all insistence. Division and rivalry are the characteristic marks of its organisation. Yet the unity does not disappear altogether, only it remains very much inactive, like a sleeping partner. It is not directly perceived and envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred.
02.02 - The Message of the Atomic Bomb, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But a new situation has arisen for some time past. The last Great War (World War No. I) was crucial in many ways in the life of humanity. It opened a new direction of man's growth, opened and then closed also apparently. I am referring to the tragedy of the League of Nations. That was an attempt on the part of man (and Nature) to lift the inner life and consciousness to the level of the outer achievements. The attempt failed. Man could not rise to the height demanded of him. Now the second World War became logically more devastating and shattering; it has given the go-by to all ethical standards and codes of honour. The poison gas was not used not because of any moral restraint or disinclination, but because of practical and utilitarian considerations. The Atom Bomb, however, has spoken the word.
That word is a warning that unless man changes, becomes master of himself, he cannot be truly master of the world. He cannot comm and the forces he has unleashed unless he has comm and over his own nature. The external immensity, the bloated mass that his physical attainments are, unless armoured and animated by an inner growth, will crash by its own weight. The mammoth, the mastodon, the huge pachyderms, in spite of, rather because of their inordinately one-sided growth could not stand the demand of life and perished. Likewise man will not possess the world but the world will engulf and devour him in its aboriginal hunger of unconsciousness, if he does not take a right-about turn and declare his conversion. The Frankenstein that man has raised can no longer be met by merely human devicesreason and morals but by a higher discovery and initiation.
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Bertr and Russell made a move in the right direction with a happy suggestion which unhappily he had not the courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are certainly emergents out of Matter; that is because the reality is neither, it is a neutral stuff out of which all emergents issue. The conclusion is logical and sensible. But as he was initially bound to his position of scientific scepticism, he could not further question or probe the neutral and stopped on the fence.
The problem in reality, however, is simple enough, if we allow the facts to speak for themselves and do not hesitate to accept the conclusions to which they inevitably lead. After Matter came Life; that is to say, out of Matter came Life, and that can only be because Life was involved in Matter. And if such a conclusion makes of Matter a potentially living thing, we shall have to accept the position. In the same way, Mind that followed Life came out of Life, because Mind was involved in Life; and if that means endowing Life with a secret mentality, well, there is no help for it. And if, as a natural consequence of the two premises we have to admit the existence of some kind of mind or consciousness secreted in Mattera minimal psychic life, according to McDougall that would be but what the Upanishads always declared: Creation -is a vibration of consciousness, and all things and all kinds of existence are only forms and modalities of consciousness.
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Professor Alexander spoke of the emergence of deities who would embody emergent properties other than those manifest in the Mind of man. Morgan asks whether there is not also a Deityor the Deityin the making. He establishes the logical necessity of such a consummation in this way: the evolutionary urge (or nisus, as it has been called) in its upward drive creates and throws up on all sides, at each stage, forms of the new property or principle of existence that has come into evidence. These multiple forms may appear anywhere and everywhere; they are strewn about on the entire surface of Nature. These are, however, the branchings of the evolutionary nisus which has a central line of advance running through the entire gradation of emergents; it is, as it were, the central pillar round which is erected a many-storeyed edifice. The interesting point is this, that at the present stage of emergence, what the central line touches and arrives at is the Deity. Or, again, the thing can be viewed in another way. At the bottom the evolutionary movement is broad-based on Matter but as it proceeds upward its extent is gradually narrowed down;
Life is less extensive than Matter and Mind is still less extensive than Life. Thus the scheme of the movement can be figured as a pyramid the base of the pyramid represents Matter, but the apex where the narrowing sides converge is what is called the Deity.
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A backward scholar on logic's rickety bench
Indoctrinated by the erring sense,
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His rigorous logic made the false seem true.
Amazing the elect with holy lore
02.10 - Independence and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If we had joined hands with the British in the war-work on their own termsto try to compel them to our terms is to put the cart before the horsewe would have seen that as we proceeded with the work, more and more of it came automatically under our charge, however small or slight it might have looked in the beginning. In the end or very soon we would have found that our possession of the field was an accomplished fact, there could be no question of denying or refusing, the fact had to be acceptedadmitted and ratified. It is the well-known policy of the camel which Aesop described in one of his Fables. We have to establish the inexorable logic of events which definitively solves the riddle, cuts the Gordian knot as it were. A theoretical, that is to say, a moral and legal pact or understanding is but a dam of sands.
Power is best gained and increased in this way, viz., through work, through practical application of it, in its painstaking executionno matter with what insignificant fund we start with. Let all power come into my hands, let me be legally and verbally recognised as free and invested with plenary power, then alone I can exercise my power, otherwise notthis is the cry of romantic idealism, of sentimental hunger: it has all the impatience and incompetence of visionariesillumins It is not the clear and solid wisdom of experience.
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A specialist of logic's hard machine
Imposed its rigid artifice on the soul;
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Armours in logic’s invulnerable mail
A thousand combatants for Truth’s veiled throne
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Bind thought with logic’s forged infallible chain
Or see truth nude in a bright abstract haze.
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Inflicting Matter’s logic on Spirit’s dreams
A reasonable animal make of man
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The free logic of an infinite Consciousness,
Grammared the hidden rhythms of Nature's dance,
02.14 - Appendix, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Atul Gupta had seen perhaps only the adverse side of Wordsworth. He had marked the heavy hand of the logician, sthla-hastvalepa, but omitted to see the delicate workmanship of the artist. But a man's true quality has to be judged by his best performance, and the best work of Wordsworth is indeed of a very high order.
Matthew Arnold brings out very well the nature of Words-worth's best work. Wordsworth at his peak, he says, seems to have surpassed even Shakespeare. He is then no longer in his own self. Mother Nature herself has taken her seat there and she goes on writing herself through the hands of the poet.11
03.02 - The Gradations of Consciousness The Gradation of Planes, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But all this must not be taken in too rigid and mechanical a sense. It is an immense plastic movement full of the play of possibilities and must be seized by a flexible and subtle tact or sense in the seeing consciousness. It cannot be reduced to a too rigorous logical or mathematical formula.
The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision. There are worlds of a larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its own forms and figures, mental worlds; psychic worlds which are the soul's home; others above with which we have little contact. In each of us there is a mental plane of consciousness, a psychic, a vital, a subtle physical as well as the gross physical and material plane.
03.02 - The Philosopher as an Artist and Philosophy as an Art, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the face of established opinion and tradition (and in the wake of the prophetic poet) I propose to demonstrate that Philosophy has as much claim to be called an art, as any other orthodox art, painting or sculpture or music or architecture. I do not refer to the element of philosophyperhaps the very large element of philosophy that is imbedded and ingrained in every Art; I speak of Philosophy by itself as a distinct type of au thentic art. I mean that Philosophy is composed or created in the same way as any other art and the philosopher is moved and driven by the inspiration and impulsion of a genuine artist. Now, what is Art? Please do not be perturbed by the question. I am not trying to enter into the philosophy the metaphysicsof it, but only into the science the physicsof it. Whatever else it may be, the sine qua non, the minimum requisite of art is that it must be a thing of beauty, that is to say, it must possess a beautiful form. Even the Vedic Rishi says that the poet by his poetic power created a heavenly formkavi kavitva divi rpam asajat. As a matter of fact, a supreme beauty of form has often marked the very apex of artistic creation. Now, what does the Philosopher do? The sculptor hews beautiful forms out of marble, the poet fashions beautiful forms out of words, the musician shapes beautiful forms out of sounds. And the philosopher? The philosopher, I submit, builds beautiful forms out of thoughts and concepts. Thoughts and concepts are the raw materials out of which the artist philosopher creates mosaics and patterns and designs architectonic edifices. For what else are philosophic systems? A system means, above all, a form of beauty, symmetrical and harmonious, a unified whole, rounded and polished and firmly holding together. Even as in Art, truth, bare sheer truth is not the object of philosophical inquiry either. Has it not been considered sufficient for a truth to be philosophically true, if it is consistent, if it does not involve self-contradiction? The equation runs: Truth=Self-consistency; Error=Self-contradiction. To discover the absolute truth is not the philosopher's taskit is an ambitious enterprise as futile and as much of a my as the pursuit of absolute space, absolute time or absolute motion in Science. Philosophy has nothing more to doand nothing lessthan to evolve or build up a system, in other words, a self-consistent whole (of concepts, in this case). Art also does exactly the same thing. Self-contradiction means at bottom, want of harmony, balance, symmetry, unity, and self-consistency means the contrary of these things the two terms used by philosophy are only the logical formulation of an essentially aesthetic value.
Take, for example, the philosophical system of Kant or of Hegel or of our own Shankara. What a beautiful edifice of thought each one has reared! How cogent and compact, organised and poised and finely modelled! Shankara's reminds me of a tower, strong and slender, mounting straight and tapering into a vanishing point among the clouds; it has the characteristic linear movement of Indian melody. On the otherhand, the march of the Kantian Critiques or of the Hegelian Dialectic has a broader base and involves a composite strain, a balancing of contraries, a blending of diverse notes: thereis something here of the amplitude and comprehensiveness of harmonic architecture (without perhaps a corresponding degree of altitude).
All these systems, commonly called philosophical, appear to me supremely artistic. The logical intellect has worked here exactly like a chisel or a brush in the hands of the artist. It did not care for truth per se, its prime preoccupation was arrangement, disposition; the problem it set before itself was how best to present a consistent and unified, that is to say, a beautiful whole.
But the philosopher's stone is not, after all, a myth, as is being proved by modern science. Even so, the philosopher's truth the truth, that is to say, in the noumenal sense, to which he aspires in his heart of heartsis also existent. There is a reality apart from and beyond all relativities and contingencies: truth is not mere self-consistence, it is self-existence. Art and philosophy as an art may not comprehend it, but they circuit round it and even have glimpses of it and touch it, though the vision they have more often aberrates, distorting a rope into a snake.
It is a grain of this truth that is the substance and the core of all true art and philosophy. Philosophy works upon this secret strand by its logic, art by imaginationalthough logic and imagination may not be so incommensurable as they are commonly thought to be; even so, both art and philosophy arrive at the same result, viz., the building of a beautiful superstructure.
This golden core of truth comes from elsewhere it is beyond the myic circle of art and philosophy. To have access to it, a lid overhead is to be broken throughra ther, as it is said, it is that that breaks through of its own accord and reveals its identity.
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The slow calm logic of Infinity's pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will.
03.05 - Some Conceptions and Misconceptions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The exclusive concentration was the logical and inevitable final term of a movement of separativity and exteriorisation. It had its necessity and utility. Its special function was utilised by Nature for precision and perfection in details of execution in the most material order of reality. Indeed, what can be more exact and accurate than the laws of physics, the mathematical laws that govern the movements of the material particles? Furthermore, if we look at the scientist himself, do we not find in him an apt image of the same phenomenon? A scientist means a specialist the more specialised and restricted his view, the surer he is likely to be in his particular domain. And specialised knowledge means a withdrawal from other fields and viewpoints of knowledge, an ignorance of them. Likewise, a workman who moulds the head of a pin is all concentrated upon that single point of existencehe forgets the whole world and himself in that act whose perfect execution seems to depend upon the measure of his self-oblivion. But evidently this is not bound to be so. A one-pointed self-absorption that is Ignoranceis certainly an effective way of dealing with material objectsthings of Ignorance; but it is not the only way. It is a way or mechanism adopted by Nature in a certain status under certain conditions. One need not always forget oneself in the act in order to do the act perfectly. An unconscious instinctive act is not always best doneit can be done best consciously, intuitively. A wider knowledge, a greater acquaintance with objects and facts and truths of other domains too is being more and more insisted upon as a surer basis of specialisation. The pinpointed (one might almost say geometrically pointed) consciousness in Matter that resolves itself into unconsciousness acts perfectly but blindly; the vast consciousness also acts there with absolute perfection but consciouslyconscious in the highest degree.
As we have said, super-consciousness does not confine itself to the supreme status alone, to the domain of pure infinity, but it comes down and embraces the most inferior status too, the status of the finite. Precisely because it is infinity, it is not bound to its infinity but can express its infinity in and through infinite limits.
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One must not forget, however, that the principle of exclusive concentration cannot be isolated I from the total action of consciousness and viewed as functioning by itself at any time. We isolated it for logical comprehension. In actuality it is integrated with the whole nisus of consciousness and operates in conjunction with and as part of the total drive. That total drive at one point results in the multiple realities of Matter. When the element of limitation in the physical plane is ascribed to the exclusiveness of a stress in consciousness, it should not be forgotten that the act is, as it were, a joint and several responsibility of the whole consciousness in its multiple functioning. And the reverse movement is also likewise a global act: there too the force that withdraws, ascends or eliminates cannot be isolated from the other force that reaffirms, re-establishes, reintegrates,the principle of exclusiveness (like that of pain) is not proved to be illusory and non-existent, but reappears in its own essential nature as a principle of centring or canalisation of consciousness.
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03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The whole world, in fact, was more or less religious in the early stages of its evolution; for it is characteristic of the primitive nature of man to be god-fearing and addicted to religious rite and ceremony. And Europe too, when she entered on a new cycle of life and began to reconstruct herself after the ruin of the Grco-Latin culture, started with the religion of the Christ and experimented with it during a long period of time. But that is what wasTroja fuit. Europe has outgrown her nonage and for a century and a half, since the mighty upheaval of the French Revolution, she has been rapidly shaking off the last vestiges of her mediaevalism. Today she stands clean shorn of all superstition, which she only euphemistically calls religion or spirituality. Not Theology but Science, not Revelation but Reason, not Magic but logic, not Fiction but Fact, governs her thoughts and guides her activities. Only India, in part under the stress of her own conservative nature, in part under compelling circumstances, still clings to her things of the past, darknesses that have been discarded by the modern illumination. Indian spirituality is nothing but consolidated mediaevalism; it has its companion shibboleth in the cry, "Back to the village" or "Back to the bullock-cart"! One of the main reasons, if not the one reason why India has today no place in the comity of nations, why she is not in the vanguard of civilisation, is precisely this obstinate atavism, this persistent survival of a spirit subversive of all that is modern and progressive.
It is not my purpose here to take up the cause of spirituality and defend it against materialism. Taking it for granted that real spirituality embodies a truth and power by far higher and mightier than anything materialism can offer, and that man's supreme ideal lies there, let us throw a comparing glance on the two types of spirituality,the one that India knows and the other that Europe knew in the Middle Ages.
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The French, for example, have developed as a people a special characteristic and mental turn that has set its pervading impress upon their culture and civilisation, upon their creations and activities; that which distinguishes them is a fine, clear and subtle, rational, logical, artistic and literary mind. France, it has often been said, is the head of modern Europe. The Indians are not in the same way a predominantly intellectual race, in spite of the mighty giants of intellect India has always produced, and still produces. Nor are they a literary race, although a rich and grandiose literature, unrivalled in its own great qualities, is their patrimony. It was the few, a small minority, almost a closed circle, that formed in India the elite whose interest and achievement lay in this field; the characteristic power, the main life-current of the nation, did not flow this way, but followed a different channel. Among the ancients the Greeks, and among the moderns the French alone, can rightfully claim as their special genius, as the hallmark of their corporate life, a high intellectual and literary culture. It is to this treasure,a serene and yet vigorous and organized rational mind, coupled with a wonderful felicity of expression in speech,that one turns when one thinks of the special gift that modern France and ancient Greece have brought to the heritage of mankind.
Again, the Japanese, as a people, have developed to a consummate degree the sense of beauty, especially as applied to life and living. No other people, not even the old-world Greeks, possessed almost to a man, as do these children of the Rising Sun, so fine and infallible an sthetic sensibility,not static or abstract, but of the dynamic kinduniformly successful in making out of their work-a-day life, even to its smallest accessories, a flawless object of art. It is a wonder to see in japan how, even an unlettered peasant, away in his rustic environment, chooses with unerring taste the site of his house, builds it to the best advantage, arranges everything about it in a faultless rhythm. The whole motion of the life of a Japanese is almost Art incarnate.
03.09 - Buddhism and Hinduism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
(III) This metaphysical position is faithfully translated, one may point out here, in their respective logical positions of the two.
Buddhist logic considers negation as a simple contrary to affirmation; it is not an entity, it is the lack of entity. Zero or cypher means simple absence. Hindu logic makes of negation a positive statement but on the minus side, even as Hindu mathematics did not consider a zero as valueless but gave a special value, a value of position to it. Do we not hear of negative positives (positron) in modern science today?
The Buddhists deny likewise the real existence of general ideas: according to them only individuals are real existences, general ideas are mere abstractions. The Hindus, on the other hand, like Plato who must have been influenced by them, affirm the reality of general ideas-although real need not always mean material.
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yes, it was the age, almost a golden age, when man lived with his sense married to the Dawn, spontaneous in his reflexes, prime-sautier, intuitive and imaginative, full of a natural, unspoilt, unsophisticated happiness and hopefulness. But the Age of Reason had to come, and man's maturer nature, perhaps some "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought". Such an age of Reason and Ratiocination and pure brain power was ushered in by Buddha in India, and almost contemporaneously by Socrates in Greece and Confucius in China. The rational, that is to say, the scientific or analytical attitude to things appeared in the human consciousness for the first time in its fullness and almost exclusive sway. Neither the Vedas nor the Upanishads knew of logic as an instrumenta necessary instrument for knowledge and expression. The old-world method was, as I said, intuitive, experiential, empirical, dogmatic. Also the atmosphere of that world, the stress of the consciousness was theocratic; what the new world brought in was what is called humanistic.
We say then that it was a necessity: it was a necessity that the rational, logical, ratiocinative, analytic mentality should be brought out and given its play and place. It is perhaps an inferior power of the mind or consciousness, but it is a strong power and has its use and utility. It is the power that gives the form and pattern for the display of consciousness and intelligence in outward expression and external living; it is a firm weapon that gives control over these inferior ranges of consciousness. The leap from the sense-consciousness or the elements of consciousness, from a mental growth just adequate and not too specialised, straight into the supra-sensuous and the transcendent had been an inevitable necessity, so that the human consciousness might get the first taste of its supreme status and value: a similar necessity brought to the fore this element of the mind, the mind's own powerof judgement and willso that there might be a greater and wider integration of human nature and also that the higher realities may be captured in our normal consciousness. Even for the withdrawal of the mind from the outer objects to the inner sources, the mind itself can be used with much effect. And Buddha showed it magnificently. And of course, Shankara too who followed in his footsteps.
To abrogate the matter of fact, rational view of life in order to view it spiritually, to regard it wholly as an expression or embodiment or vibration of consciousness-delight was possible to the Vedic discipline which saw and adored the Immanent Godhead. It was not possible to Buddha and Buddhistic consciousness; for the Immanent Divine was ignored in the Buddhistic scheme. Philosophically, in regard to ultimate principles, Buddhism was another name for nihilism, creation being merely an assemblage of particles of consciousness that is desire; the particles scattered and dissolved, remains only the supreme incomparable Nirvana. But pragmatically Buddhism was supremely humanistic.
03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Even then, even though French has been ousted from the market-place, it holds still a place of honour in the cultural world, among the lite and the intelligentsia. I have said French rules the continent of Europe. Indeed even now an intellectual on the ,continent feels more at ease in French and would prefer to have the French version of a theme or work rather than the English. Indeed we may say in fact that the two languages appeal to two types of mentality, each expressing a characteristically different version of the same original truth or fact or statement. If you wish to have your ideas on a subject clear, rational and unambiguous, you must go to French. French is the language par excellence of law and logic. Mental presentation, as neat and transparent as possibly can be is the special aid French language brings to you. But precisely because it is intellectually so clear, and neat, it has often to avoid or leave out certain shades and nuances or even themes which do not go easily into its logical frame. English is marvellous in this respect, that being an il logical language it is more supple and pliant and rich and through its structural ambiguities can catch and reflect or indicate ideas and realities, rhythms and tones that are supra-rational. French, as it has been pointed out by French writers themselves, is less rich in synonyms than English. There each word has a very definite and limited (or limiting) connotation, and words cannot be readily interchanged. English, on the other hand, has a richer, almost a luxuriant vocabulary, not only in respect of the number of words, but also in the matter of variation in the meaning a given word conveys. Of course, double entendre or suggestiveness is a quality or capacity that all languages that claim a status must possess; it is necessary to express something of the human consciousness. Still, in French that quality has a limited, if judicious and artistic application; in English it is a wild growth.
French expresses better human psychology, while meta-physical realities find a more congenial home in the English language. This is not to say that the English are born meta-physicians and that the French are in the same manner natural psychologists. This is merely to indicate a general trait or possible capacity of the respective languages. The English or the English language can hold no candle to the German race or the German language in the matter of metaphysical abstruseness. German is rigid, ponderous, if recondite. English is more flexible and has been used and can be used with great felicity by the mystic and the metaphysician. The insular English with regard to his language and letters have been more open to external influences; they have benefited by their wide contact with other peoples and races and cultures.
03.12 - TagorePoet and Seer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The miracle that Tagore has done is this: he has brought out the very soul of the raceits soul of lyric fervour and grace, of intuitive luminosity and poignant sensibility, of beauty and harmony and delicacy. It is this that he has made living and vibrant, raised almost to the highest pitch and amplitude in various modes in the utterance of his nation. What he always expresses, in all his creations, is one aspect or another, a rhythm or a note of the soul movement. It is always a cry of the soul, a profound experience in the inner heart that wells out in the multifarious cadences of his poems. It is the same motif that finds a local habitation and a name in his short stories, perfect gems, masterpieces among world's masterpieces of art. In his dramas and novels it is the same element that has found a wider canvas for a more detailed and graphic notation of its play and movement. I would even include his essays (and certainly his memoirs) within the sweep of the same master-note. An essay by Rabindranath is as characteristic of the poet as any lyric poem of his. This is not to say that the essays are devoid of a solid intellectual content, a close-knit logical argument, an acute and penetrating thought movement, nor is it that his novels or dramas are mere lyrics drawn out arid thinned, lacking in the essential elements of a plot and action and character. What I mean is that over and above these factors which Tagores art possesses to a considerable degree, there is an imponderable element, a flavour, a breath from elsewhere that suffuses the entire creation, something that can be characterised only as the soul-element. It is this presence that makes whatever the poet touches not only living and graceful but instinct with something that belongs to the world of gods, something celestial and divine, something that meets and satisfies man's deepest longing and aspiration.
I have been laying special stress upon this aspect of Tagore's genius, because humanity is in great need of it today, because all has gone wrong with the modern world since it lost touch with its soul and was beguiled into a path lighted by false glimmers and will-o'-the-wisps, hires of a superficial and infra-human consciousness, or into the by-ways and backwashes and aberrations of a sophisticated intellectualism.
03.14 - From the Known to the Unknown?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For may not the contrary motto" from the unknown to the known"be equally valid, both as a matter of fact and as a matter of principle? Do we not, sometimes at least, take for granted and start with the unknown number x to find out the solution to our problem? Why go far, the very first step that the child takes in his adventurous journey of life, is it not a veritable step into the unknown? Indeed, many, in fact most of the scientific laws the Laws of Natureare they strictly the result of calculation and deduction from known and observed data or are they not rather "brilliant surmises", "sudden revelations" that overwhelm by their un-expected appearance? Newton did not arrive at his Law of Gravitation in the trail of a logical argument from given premises towards unforeseen conclusions. Nor did Einstein discover his version of the Law in any syllogistic way either. The fact seems to be more often true that the unknown reveals itself all on a sudden and is not reached through a continuous series of known steps. Examples could be easily multiplied from the history of scientific discoveries.
For the fact is that man, the being that knows, is composed not merely of known elements, known to himself and to others, but possesses a hidden, an unknown side which is nonetheless part of himself. And even though unknown, it is not inactive,it always exerts its influence, imposes its presence. Man has a submerged consciousness which is in contact and communion with similarly submerged worlds of consciousness. Man's consciousness possesses aerials that catch vibrations from unknown regions. He has a secret sensitiveness that receives intimations from other where than his physical senses and his logical reason. His external mind does not always recognise such unorthodox or abnormal movements; he only expresses his surprise or amazement at the luminosity, the au thenticity of solutions that come so simply, suddenly, inevitably, the unknown revealing itself miraculously.
In the spiritual field the unknown is a fact of primary importance and has to be given the first place, the foremost consideration. For the call is towards the Beyond and no amount of trafficking with the actual the near and the knowncan lead you out of it. There must be a sudden leap at one time or another. That is what is meant by saying that the deep calls unto the deep. For man has the power, the privilege to contact directly the thing that is unknown and beyond. There is an opening in him, a kind of backdoor, as it were, through which he can pass straight into another dimension.
04.01 - The Divine Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But this is God's sharela part de Dieu; for man too as man has to do his part. Because the Divine descending and accomplishing the work does not mean either of two things: first, it does not mean that it is a sudden miracle, deus ex machine, a fiat from the heaven which upsets and bears down everything before it and practically has no relation, logical or causal with what precedes and what follows. It is, on the contrary, as we have said, the culmination of a long process, the seal of fulfilment set upon a steady preparation and travailing growth. The Divine descends when the time is ripe, that is to say, when forces and instruments have been developed, refined, sharpened and tempered, so that they can harness and wield the Power from above. But for the preparation, the necessary conditions being there, the Grace would not have descended, although it is also true that but for the Grace, the culmination and the utter fulfilment would not have come aboutthere would have been only a vicious circle or an unending seesaw. Next, the Descent does not mean 'either that following upon it the whole business is done and completed automatically and immediately or nothing is left to be done any more. Not so. It means that what has been so long practically beyond reach, towards which one had to move with uncertainty and vague effort and in a roundabout way, as though through a trackless virgin forest or across an uncharted sea, has now been brought nearer and closer to human grasp, is now made part and parcel of earth's familiar atmosphere, so that any human being who genuinely aspires and looks for it can find it about him: there is just a thin veil which has to be put aside a little, into which a little opening is to be made and one comes in contact with or even enters into what one seeks. This means that the Grace has leaned down to man, but man too has at least to stretch his arms to touch and embrace it. Furthermore, to make that Grace permanently active and real in the normal consciousness, one has to labour, work out in fact what is given potentially: the seed is planted for him, it will grow and bloom and come to fruition provided necessary care and attention are given to the soil that bears it.
Thus then the embodied human person who has the embodied Divine Person before his eyes must know how to instal and incorporate the Divine Person in him, in his body and physical existence. That was perhaps the mystery sought to be conveyed in the Christian sacrament of transubstantiation. The bread and wine that the initiate has to take in representare or become actually and physically, as the Christian mystics assert the flesh and blood of Christ. One has to become the Divine Person in flesh and blood, wholly and integrally. As the fossil is a transmutation in stone, grain by grain, of a living bodyorganic elements eliminated and replaced by the inorganic in the very atomic structure and constitutioneven so, the living human structure, the mental, vital and physical formation will be translated, grain by grain, atom by atom into the divine substance by the infusion and imposition of the Divine figure.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We may follow a little more closely the march of the centuries in their undulating movement. The creative intelligence of the Renaissance too belonged to a region of the higher mind, a kind of inspirational mind. It had not the altitude or even the depth of the Greek mind nor its subtler resonances: but it regained and re-established and carried to a new degree the spirit of inquiry and curiosity, an appreciation of human motives and preoccupations, a rational understanding of man and the mechanism of the world. The original intuitive fiat, the imaginative brilliance, the spirit of adventure (in the mental as well as the physical world) that inspired the epoch gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre terre rationalism. Great figures still adorned that agestalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry rationalism of the preceding age, but it came burdened with a more positive mission. Its magic name was Romanticism. Man opened his heart, his higher feeling and nobler emotional surge, his subtler sensibility and a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of
A light that was ne'er on sea or land. . .
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The appearance of the Greeks on the stage of human civilisation is a mystery to historians. They are so different from all that preceded them. There does not seem to exist any logical link between them and the races from whom they are supposed to have descended or whose successors they were. The Minoan or Cretan civilisation is said to be cradle of the Greek, but where is the parallel or proportion between the two, judging from whatever relics have been left over from the older, the more ancient one. Indeed that is the term which best describes the situation. Whatever has gone before the Hellenic culture is ancient; they belong to the Old Regime. Egypt is old, Phoenicia is old, the Hebrews are old, all the other races of the old world are old, not merely chrono logically, but psycho logically. But Hellas is modern. There is a breath in the Ionian atmosphere, a breath of ozone, as it were, which wafts down to us, even into the air of today. Homer and Solon, Socrates and Aristotle, Pythagoras and Plato are still the presiding gods ruling over the human spirit that was born on Olympus and Ida.
Human evolution took a decisive turn with the advent of the Hellenic culture and civilisation. All crises in evolution are a sudden revelation, an unexpected outburst, a saltum, a leap into the unknown. Now, what the Greeks brought in was the Mind, the luminous Reason, the logical faculty that is married to the senses, no doubt, but still suffused with an inner glow of consciousness. It is the faculty mediating between a more direct and immediate perception of things, Intuition and Instinct, on the one hand, and on the other, the perception given by the senses and a power of control over material things. Take Egypt or Israel or Chaldea, what one finds prominent there is the instinctive-intuitive man, spontaneousprime-sautierimaginative, mythopoeic, clairvoyant, clairaudient (although not very clear, in the modern and Greek sense), bringing into this world things of the other world and pushing this world as much as possible into the other, maintaining a kind of direct connection and communion between the two. The Greeks are of another mould. They are a rational people; they do not move and act simply or mainly by instinctive reactions, but even these are filtered in them through a light of the Mind of Intelligence, a logical pattern, a rational disposition of things; through Mind they seek to know Matter and to control it. It is the modern methodology, that of observation and experiment, in other words, the scientific procedure. The Greeks have had their gods, their mythology; but these are modelled somewhat differently: the gods are made more human, too human, as has often been observed. Zeus and Juno (Hera) are infinitely more human than Isis and Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but they have not the sunshine, the radiance and smile of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere) or Hermes. The Greeks might have, they must have taken up their gods from a more ancient Pantheon, but they have, after the manner of their sculptor Phidias, remoulded them, shaped and polished them, made them more luminous and nearer and closer to earth and men. 1 Was it not said of Socrates that he brought down the gods from heaven upon earth?
The intermediary faculty the Paraclete, which the Greeks brought to play is a corner-stone in the edifice of human progress. It is the formative power of the Mind which gives things their shape and disposition, their consistency and cogency as physical realities. There are deeper and higher sources in man, more direct, immediate and revealing, where things have their birth and origin; but this one is necessary for the embodiment, for the building up and maintenance of the subtler and profounder truths in an earthly structure, establish and fix them in the normal consciousness. The Socratic Dialogues are rightly placed at the start of the modern culture; they set the pattern of modern mentality. That rational turn of mind, that mental intelligence and understanding as elaborated, formulated, codified by the Aristotelian system was the light that shone through the Grco-Latin culture of the Roman days; that was behind the culture and civilisation of the Middle Ages. The changes and revolutions of later days, social or cultural, did not affect it, rather were based upon it and inspired by it. And even today our scientific culture maintains and continues the tradition.
04.04 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of the Beyond, when the human being has been mentalised to a degree and in a manner that makes it inevitable for him to overpass to a higher status and live there habitually, then it becomes an urgent matter of concern to know and find out where one goes exactly, on which level and in what domain, once one is beyond. The question, it is true, engaged the attention of the ancients too; but it was more or less an interesting inquiry, a good part speculative and theoretical; it had not the reality and insistence of the need of the hour. We have today chalked out an almost exhaustive science of the inferior consciousness, of the lower hemisphereof course, so far as it is possible for such a science to be exhaustive moving in the light of the partial and inferior consciousness. In the same way we need at the present hour a complete and precise science of the Divine Consciousness. As there is a logic of the finite, there is also a logic of the infinite, not merely its magic, and that too has to be discovered and laid out.
Thus, the highest and most comprehensive description of the Divine is perhaps the formula Sat-chit-ananda. But even so, it is a very general and, after all, an inadequate description. It has to be filled in and supplemented by other categories as well, if one may say so. For Sat-chit-ananda presents to us the Sat Brahman. There is also the Asat Brahman. And again we must accept a reality which is neither Sat nor Asatnsadsnno sadst, says the Veda. And as for the filling up of the details in an otherwise almost blank and featureless infinity, Sri Aurobindo's charting of that vast unknownwith the categories of the Supermind and its various levels, of the Overmind and its levels too, all forming the Divine Status and Consciousness is a new, almost a revolutionary revelation, just the required science which the present world needs and demands and for which it has been prepared through all the cycles of evolution.
04.06 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of the Beyond, when the human being has been mentalised to a degree and in a manner that makes it inevitable for him to overpass to a higher status and live there habitually, then it becomes an urgent matter of concern to know and find out where one goes exactly, on which level and in what domain, once one is beyond. The question, it is true, engaged the attention of the ancients too; but it was more or less an interesting enquiry, a good part speculative and theoretical; it had not the reality and insistence of the need of the hour. We have today chalked out an almost exhaustive science of the inferior consciousness, of the lower hemisphereof course, so far as it is possible for such a science to be exhaustive moving in the light of the partial and inferior consciousness. In the same way we need at the present hour a complete and precise science of the Divine Consciousness. As there is a logic of the finite, there is also a logic of the infinite, not merely its magic, and that too has to be discovered and laid out.
Thus, the highest and most comprehensive description of the Divine is perhaps the formula Sat-chit-ananda. But even so, it is a very general and, after all, an inadequate description. It has to be filled in and supplemented by other categories as well, if one may say so. For Sat-chit-ananda presents to us the Sat Brahman. There is also the Asat Brahman. And again we must accept a reality which is neither Sat nor Asatnsadsnno sadst, says the Veda. And as for the filling up of the details in an otherwise almost blank and featureless infinity, Sri Aurobindo's charting of that vast unknownwith the categories of the Supermind and its various levels, of the Overmind and its levels too, all forming the Divine Status and Consciousness is a new, almost a revolutionary revelation, just the required science which the present world needs and demands and for which it has been prepared through all the cycles of evolution.
04.09 - Values Higher and Lower, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Value refers to the particular poise or status, the mode of being or function of a thing. In its ultimate formulation we can say it is the rhythm or force of consciousness that vibrates in an object, it is the becomingof the being:but becoming does not cancel being, it only activises, energises, formulates. The debate brings us back to the ancient quarrel between the Buddhists and the Vedantists, the latter posits sat, being or existence, while the former considers sat as only an assemblage of asat. The object and its function, the thing-in-itself and its attribute (the fire and its burning power, as the Indian logicians used to cite familiarly as an example) are not to be separated they are not separated in fact but given together as one unified entity; it is the logical mind that separates them artificially.
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05.01 - At the Origin of Ignorance, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine Consciousness, basically and essentially one and unique, has inherent in it four cardinal attributesprinciples of its modulation, modes of its vibrationdeveloping into or appearing as four aspects and personalities. They are Light, Force, Delight and Knowledge. Originally and in the supreme status the four movements are one and indivisible and form one indissoluble identity with the Divine's pure essence and absolute unity. The differentiation or variability there in the Immutable is a play immanent in the integral self-nature of the Supreme. The one and the many form on that level a single entity, an undivided whole: the unity running in and through and holding the multiplicity and the multiplicity being the playfulness of the unity. Multiplicity, however, implies freedom of movement in the Unique. In other words, the very character of variability is the absolute freedom of the variables; the play consists precisely in the free choice and self-determination of the partners, the differentiated units. For a formation in the Divine Consciousness, an individualised formulation of its being must necessarily have the Divine's own freedom. Now, the result of this freedom is somewhat unexpected, to put it in the human way, that is to say, it was not explicit at that point, in that field of consciousness. For the freedom, in the normal course of its play, reached a degree or arrived at a mode which brought about I a shift and an impulsion meaning a rift and a clear separation: I the momentum of the free movement carried the individual formation beyond the range of its sense of unity and identity with all and the One. More and more it isolated itself, limiting itself to its own orbit and to its own fund of energy. This isolation, it must be noted, occurs at the origin without any sense of perversity or revolt or disobedience on the part of the free entity, as the legend formulated by the human mind imaged it. The movement of freedom and individual formation in its urge crosses, as it were, a borderline, passes from the safe zone within the Divine's own status into a different zone, creates it, as a matter of fact, by that overzealous and self-concentrated free movement. But, as I have said, there is no premeditation or arrire pense or bad will or spirit of contradiction there at the origin of the deviation. It is no original sin: it is a spontaneous, almost a logical consequence, an inevitable expression of the freedom that particulars enjoy as part and parcel of the Divine Universal.
And yet the result is strange and revolutionary. The game once begun develops its own scheme and pattern and modality. For that crucial step in the movement of freedom, that definite moving away, the assertion of complete independence and isolation immediately brought about a reversal of realities, a complete negation of the original attri butes. Thus Light became obscurity or Inconscience, Life became death, Delight became pain and suffering, Power became incapacity, Knowledge became Ignorance, and Truth became falsehood. In other words, Spirit became forthright Matter.
05.01 - Man and the Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Three courses are open to the perfected and completely developed soul. First, it may remain, contented with its fullness, self-gathered and self-sufficient, dwelling in its own domain the psychic world and enjoying the even, equal, undisturbed felicity and beatitude of union with the Divine. This status may perhaps not be chosen by many or for a long time. The second line that the Psyche can adopt is to come down or remain upon earth and take a share in the fulfilment of the Divine Purpose in the world. That purpose is the transformation of the physical, making the material an embodiment of the divine Light and Power and Bliss and Immortality. A third development also may take place; this is not strictly speaking normal, not the logical and inevitable happening in the course of things, nor does it depend wholly upon any personal choice of the psychic being, so to say. It occurs when the force of a higher destiny operates, for a special work and at a special time. It is when the psychic being is contacted with, made to identify itself with, a godhead under a higher dispensation, when, in a word, a divinity descends into a human soul.
The gods are especial powers and executive agents of the one Divine. They move and act in a special way with a special end in view. They are, we may say, highbrow entities: they carry things with a high hand. That is to say, what they have got to do, they seek to do without any consideration or computation of the means, without regard to the pauses and hindrances that naturally attend all terrestrial and human achievements. God said, let there be light, and there was light. That is also the way of the gods. There is here an imperial majesty and grandeur, a sweeping mastery and sovereign indifference,
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine acts in three different ways in his three well-known aspects. As the transcendent Reality he is above and beyond creation, he is the Unmanifest, although he may hold within either involved or dissolved the entire manifestation. Next, he is the manifestation, the cosmic or the universal; he is one with creation, immanent in it, still its master and lord. Finally, he has an individual aspect: he is a Person with whom human beings can enter into relations of love and service. The Divine incarnate as a human being, is a special manifestation of the Individual Divine. Even then, as an embodied earthly person, he may act in a way characteristic of any of the three aspects. The Divine descended upon earth, as viewed by Sri Aurobindo, does not come in his transscendental aspect, fundamentally aloof and away, in his absolute power and consciousness, working miracles here; for transcendence can do nothing but that in the midst of conditions left as they are. Nor does he manifest himself only as his cosmic power and consciousness, imbedded in the creation and all-pervading, exercising his influence through the pressure of Universal Law, perhaps in a concentrated form, still working gradually, step by step, as though through a logical process, for the maintenance of the natural order and harmony, lokasagraha. God can be more than that, individualised in a special, even a human sense. His individual being can and does hold within itself his cosmic and transcendental self covertly in a way but overtly too in a singular manner at the same time. The humanised personality of the Divine with his special role and function is at the very centre of Sri Aurobindo's solution of the world enigma. The little poem A God's Labour in its short compass outlines and explains beautifully the grand Mystery.
The usual idea of God (as the theists hold, for example) is that he is an infinite eternal impassible being, aloof from human toils and earthly turmoils, himself untouched by these and yet, in and through them, directing the world for an inscrutable purpose, unless it is for leaning towards it and stretching out the hand of Grace to those of the mortals who wish to come out of the nightmare of life, sever the coils of earthly existence. But the Divine in order to be and remain divine need not hold to his seat above and outside the creation, severely separated from his creatures. He can, on the contrary, become truly the ordinary man and labour as all others, yet maintaining his divinity and being conscious of it. After all, is not man, every human being, built in the same pattern, a composite of the earthly human element supported and infused by a secret divine element? However, God, the individual Divine, does become man, one of them and one with them. Only, his labour thereby increases manifold, hard and heavy, although for that very reason full of a bright rich multiple promise. The Divine's self-hurilanisation has for it a double purpose: (I) to show man by example how he can become what he truly is, how he can divinise himself: the Divine as man lives out the life of a sadhakawholly and completely; (2) to help concretely by his own force of consciousness the world and man in their endeavour for progress and evolution, to give the help wholly and completely from the innermost status of the self down to the most external physical body and the material field. This help again is a twofold function. The first is to make available, gather within easy reach, the high realisations, the spiritual treasures that are normally stored in a heaven somewhere else. The Divine Man brings down the divine attributes close to our earth, turns them from mere far possibilities into near probabilities, even imminent realities. They are made part and parcel, constituent elements of the earthly atmosphere, so that one has only to open one's mouth to brea the in, extend one's arms to seize and possess them: even to this opening and this gesture man is helped by the concrete touch and presence of the Divine. Further, the help and succour come in another way which is more intimate, more living and appealing to man.
05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are two ways off acing the problem. First, the Kantian way which cuts the Gordian knot. We say here that there are two realms in which man lives, but they are incommensurables: the truths and categories of one cannot be judged and tested by those of the other. Each is sui generis, each is valid in its own right, in its own dominion. God, Soul, Immortality these are realities belonging to one section of our nature, seizable by a faculty other than the Pure Reason, viz.,the Practical Reason; while the realities given by the senses and the judgments of the logical mind are of another section. It may be said one is physical, the other metaphysical. The positivists limit their field of enquiry and knowledge to the physical: they seek to keep the other domain quite apart as something imaginary, illusory, often unnecessary and not unoften harmful to true human interest.
To a more detached and impartial view this may appear very much like the ostrich-policy. If a thing really exists, one cannot negate it by simply closing one's eyes. This involves a dichotomy which the logical mind may like to impose and live by, but man cannot be thus artificially segmented. And if both the worlds are found in him both have to be accepted and if they are found together, there must be some sort of commensurability between the two.
Indeed the second way of approach to the problem is the positivist's own way. That is to say, let us take our stand on the terra firmaof the physical and probe into it and find out whether there are facts there which open the way or point to the other side of nature, whether there are signs, hints, intimations, factors involved there that lead to conclusions, if not inevitable, at least conformable to supraphysical truths. It is usually asserted, for example, that the scientist the positivist par excellencefollows a rigid process of ratiocination, of observation, analysis and judgment. He collects facts and a sufficient number of them made to yield a general law the probability of a generic factwhich is tested or exemplified by other correlate facts. This is however an ideal, a theoretical programme not borne out by actual practice, it is a rationalisation of a somewhat different actuality. The scientist, even the most hard-headed among them, the mathematician, finds his laws often and perhaps usually not by a long process of observation and induction or deduction, but all on a sudden, in a flash of illumination. The famous story of Newton .and the falling apple, Kepler's happy guess of the elliptical orbit of the planetsand a host of examples can be cited as rather the rule than the exception for the methodology of scientific discovery. Prof. Hadamard, the great French mathematician the French are well-known for their intransigent, logical and rational attitude in Science,has been compelled to admit the supreme role of an intuitive faculty in scientific enquiry. If it is argued that the so-called sudden intuition is nothing but the final outburst, the cumulative resultant of a long strenuous travail of thinking and reasoning and arguing, Prof. Hadamard says', in reply, that it does not often seem to be so, for the answer or solution that is suddenly found does not lie in the direction of or in conformity with the, conscious rational research but goes against it and its implications.
This faculty of direct knowledge, however, is not such a rare thing as it may appear to be. Indeed if we step outside the circumscribed limits of pure science instances crowd upon us, even in our normal life, which would compel one to conclude that the rational and sensory process is only a fringe and a very small part of a much greater and wider form of knowing. Poets and artists, we all know, are familiar only with that form: without intuition and inspiration they are nothing. Apart from that, modern inquiries and observations have established beyond doubt certain facts of extra-sensory, suprarational perceptionof clairvoyance and clairaudience, of prophecy, of vision into the future as well as into the past. Not only these unorthodox faculties of knowledge, but dynamic powers that almost negate or flout the usual laws of science have been demonstrated to exist and can be and are used by man. The Indian yogic discipline speaks of the eight siddhis, super-natural powers attained by the Yogi when he learns to control nature by the force of his consciousness. Once upon a time these facts were challenged as facts in the scientific world, but it is too late now in the day to deny them their right of existence. Only Science, to maintain its scientific prestige, usually tries to explain such phenomena in the material way, but with no great success. In the end she seems to say these freaks do not come within her purview and she is not concerned with them. However, that is not for us also the subject for discussion for the moment.
05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Even Eddington is not so absurd or impossible as it may seem to some. He says, as we have seen, that all so-called laws of Nature can be discovered from within the mind itself, can be deduced logically from psycho logically given premises: no empiricial observation or objective experimentation is necessary to arrive at them: they are found a priori in the subject. Now, mystic experience always lays stress on extra-sensory knowledge: it declares that such a knowledge is not only possible, but that this alone is the right and correct knowledge. All thingsmatter and mind and life and allbeing but vibrations of consciousness, even as the colours of a spectrum are vibrations, electro-magnetic waves of different frequency, mystic discipline enables one to enter into that condition in which one's consciousness mingles with all consciousness or with another particular consciousness (Patanjali's term is samyama), and one can have all knowledge that one wishes to have by this inner contact or concentration or identification, one discovers the knowledge within oneself, no external means of sense observation and experimental testing, no empirical inductive process is needed. We do not say that Eddington had in view anything of this kind, but that his attitude points in this direction.
That seems to be the burden, the underlying preoccupation of modern physical science: it has been forced to grope towards some kind of mystic perception; at least, it has been put into a frame of mind, due to the crumbling of the very fundamentals of the past structure, which is less obstructive to other sources and spheres and ways of knowledge. Certainly, we must admit that we have moved very far from Laplace when we hear today a hard-boiled rationalist like De Broglie declare:
05.10 - Knowledge by Identity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo says, knowledgetrue knowledgecomes always by identity, i.e., when you are identified with the object, when the knower and the known are one. He further adds that even ordinary knowledge, sense-perception, comes in fact by that way, although it may look otherwise, viz., as a process of logical induction or deduction or both. When I am angry, he illustrates, I know I am angry because I become anger or when I know I am existent, it is because I am one with my existence.
Prof. Das1 seeks to controvert the position. He says, when there is complete identity there is no knowledge. If I am wholly one with the object, I get merged and lost in it. When I become a thing, I no longer know the thing. If I know a thing, it means the thing is separate from me, in front of me; the relation of subject-object is the very essence, the sine qua non of all knowledge. Taking up the illustration, Prof. Das says: if I know I am angry, it clearly shows that I and my anger are separate entities; similarly, I know I exist, it too shows that I am separate, partially at least, from my existence, that is to say, as knower transcendent to the object known. In knowing there cannot thus be complete identity.
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When the Upanishad says, one who knows Brahman be comes Brahman, does it not mean that the very condition of knowing Brahman is to become it? Indeed, there is no contradiction or incommensurability between knowing and becoming, between (what is termed by the mystic as) Knowledge and Realisation. Consciousness has a twofold power, Sri Aurobindo says: the power of apprehension and the power of comprehensionprajna and vijna. Prajnana, the apprehending consciousness, sets the object in front, away and separate from itself and contemplates it: Vijnana, the comprehending consciousness, on the other hand, comprehends, embraces the object within itself, as part of its own being. The two are not distinct or incompatible movements, they go together and form one single movement of consciousness. It is the mind, the reason that makes the separation; it is not possible for the mind to view two things simultaneously. It is because of this incapacity of the mind, married to its logic of the finite, that Sri Aurobindo points out the way of correcting it by a higher supramental power which operates in a global way.
Let us go back to our illustration. I am angry means both I am anger and I know I have anger. It is true in fact and experience. Similarly I am (existent) means both I am existence and I know I am existent. The transcendence of the subject (of which Prof. Das speaks) is nothing but the poise of the consciousness as the apprehending Purusha: it does not negate or exclude identification, which is another arm of a biune process. The two are complementary to each other. Also Purusha and Prakriti are nor contradictories, not mutually exclusive; they are dual aspects or dispositions of the same consciousness or self-conscious reality. Consciousness involved and lost to itself and in itself is Prakriti, consciousness evolved and looking out at itself is Purusha. I am aware of myself and I am myself are two ways of saying the same thing. We imagine Shakespeare expressed the experience graphically and poetically when he made his character say:
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In seeking to disvalue the principle of identity as a fundamental element in knowing, Prof. Das brings in to witness on his side the logical copula. Some logicians, of course, assert a parallelism if not identity between the laws of thought and the laws of language, language being conceived as the very imagea photographof thought, but the truth of the matter is that it is and it is not so, as in many other things. However, here when it is stated that the copula disjoining the subject and the predicate is the very pattern of all process of knowledge, one mistakes, we are afraid, a scheme or a formula, for the thing itself, a way of understanding a fact for the fact itself. Such a formula for understanding, however it may be valid for more or less analytical languages, those of later growth, need not and did not have the same propriety in respect of other older languages. We know the evolution of language has been in the direction of more and more disjunction of its component limbs even like the progression of the human mind and intellect. The modern analytical languages with their army of independent prepositions have taken the place of the classical languages which were predominantly inflexional. The Greek and Latin started the independent prepositional forms in the form of a fundamentally inflexional structure. Still further back, in Sanskrit for example, the inflexional form reigns supreme. Prefixes and affixes served the role of prepositions. And if we move further backward, the synthetic movement is so complete that the logical components (the subject, the copula, the predicate) are fused together into one symbol (the Chinese ideogram). We are here nearer to the original nature and pattern of knowledgea single homogeneous movement of apperception. There is no sanctity or absoluteness in the logical disposition of thought structure; the Aristotelian makes it a triplicity, the Indian Nyaya would extend the dissection to five or seven limbs. But whatever the logical presentation, the original psycho logical movement is a single indivisible lan and the Vedantic fusion of the knower, the knowledge and the known in identity remains the fundamental fact.
Calcutta Review, 1948 August-September.
05.11 - The Place of Reason, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Another point in Sri Aurobindo's view of consciousness which troubles Prof. Das is about the exact nature and function of Reason. For while on one side Sri Aurobindo never seems to be tired of pointing out the inherent incapacity of Reasonin the good company of the ancient Rishisas an instrument for the discovery or realisation of the Absolute or the integral Reality, he asserts, on the other hand, almost in the same breath as it were, that mind can have some idea or conception of what is beyond it, which it so often vainly strives to seize or represent. Evidently, the rationalist logic fails to hold together the two ends, as it is further seen in Prof. Das's failure to perceive any distinction between types or gradations of "thinking".1 He thinks that just as a philosopher thinks, or a cabman thinks or an animal thinks, all must think in the same way and through the same function of the same organ: either there is thinking (thinking proper, of one particular kind) or there is no thinking. That Nature consists of a graduated scale in every line of its movements, and that the gradations shade off into each othernot only so but that each scale or principle may contain within itself all the others2is a phenomenon which runs contrary to the "either this or that" or "no-overlapping" principle, like the colour-blind for whom things are either black or white. In the global outlook, however, we do not stand in the relation of division, separation, mutual exclusiveness. There is a consciousness in which all contraries find a harmonising truth and rhythm.
In Sri Aurobindo, Reason and Intuition possess a dual relation of mutual negation and mutual affirmation, of exclusiveness and inclusiveness, as indeed is the relation of Brahman and the World. One negates the other in the sphere of ignorance but in knowledge one affirms the other. That is to say, Reason or mental logic, so long as it is dominated by the senses, by the external impressions from things and by its analytic or exclusively separative method of procedure, is a denial of Intuition and a bar to spiritual experience. But Reason can be purified, relieved of its dross, illumined (sam-buddha)sublimated and uplifted then it comes to its own, becomes what it really is and should bea frame to give body to what is beyond and unembodied, a mirror in conceptual terms to what is supra-conceptual. It loses its hard rigidity and becomes supple, loses its obscurity, density and becomes transparent: it attains a new rhythm and gait and capacity. Many of the Upanishadic mantras, a good part of the Gita, do that. And Sri Aurobindo's own exposition is a miracle in that style. "Reason was a helper, Reason is the bar"and, we can add, Reason will again be an aid. The world, as it is, is anything but Divine; and yet it is nothing but the Divine essentially and fundamentally; it can and will attain the divine figure apparently and externally too. Even so with regard to man's mind and reason and all his other limbs.
Calcutta Review, January 1949.
Thus, take the principles of matter, life and mind. They are separate and distinct from one point of view the logical and practical. But life came out of matter, and then mind out of life that is the evolutionary conception. In other words, matter shades off into life, there is a point where it is difficult to say whether it is matter or life; similarly there is a point where life shades off into mind, where mind and life are fused together. We can further say that in matter there is a life and there is a mind, and in life there is a matter and a mind and in mind too there is a matter and a life. But these facts of Nature are disconcerting to the one-track mind of the logical philosopher and make the confusion worse confounded for him.
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05.13 - Darshana and Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
European thought, European philosophy particularly, moves under the aegis of the Mind. It takes its stand within the Mind and from there tries to reach out to truths and realities; and therefore, however far it goes, its highest flights of perception, its most intimate contacts with spirit-truths are 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought'. The Indian standpoint, on the contrary, is first to contact the truth by a direct realisationthrough meditation, concentration, an uplifting and a deepening of the consciousness, through Yoga, spiritual discipline, and then endeavour to express the truth thus realised, directly intuited or revealed, through mental terms, to make it familiar and communicable to the normal intelligence. Mind, so subordinated and keyed to a new rhythm, becomes, as far as it is possible for it, a channel, a vehicle and not a veil. All the main systems of Indian philosophy have this characteristic as their background. Each stands on a definite experience, a spiritual realisation, a direct contact with an aspect of truth and in and -through that seeks to give a world-view, building "up an intellectual system, marshalling rational conclusions that are natural to it or derive inevitably from it. In the Upanishads, which preceded the Darshanas, the spiritual realisations were not yet mentally systematised or logically buttressed: truths were delivered there as self-evident statements, as certitudes luminous in their own au thenticity. We accept them without question and take them into our consciousness as forming its fundamental norms, structuring its most intimate inscape. This is darana, seeing, as philosophy is named in India. One sees the truth or reality and describes it as it is seen, its limbs and gestures, its constituents and functions. Philosophy here is fundamentally a recording of one's vision and a translation or presentation of it in mental terms.
The procedure of European philosophy is different. There the reason or the mental light is the starting-point. That light is cast about: one collects facts, one observes things and happenings and then proceeds to find out a general trutha law, a hypothesisjustified by such observations. But as a matter of fact this is the ostensible method: it is only a make-believe. For mind and reason are not normally so neutral and impersonal, a tabula rasa. The observer already comes into the field with a definite observational angle and a settled viewpoint. The precise sciences of today have almost foundered on this question of the observer entering inextricably into his observations and vitiating them. So in philosophy too as it is practised in Europe, on a closer observation, if the observer is carefully observed, one finds not unoften a core of suppositions, major premises taken for granted hidden behind the logical apparatus. In other words, even a hardened philosopher cherishes at the back of his mind a priorijudgments and his whole philosophy is only a rationalisation of an inner prejudgment, almost a window-dressing of a perception that came to him direct and in other secret ways. That was what Kant meant when he made the famous distinction between the Pure and the Practical Reason and their categories. Only the direct perceptions, the spiritual realisations are so much imbedded behind, covered so much with the mist of mind's struggle and tension and imaginative construction that it is not always easy to disengage the pure metal from the ore.
We shall take the case of one such philosopher and try to illustrate our point. We are thinking of Whitehead. The character of European philosophical mind is well exemplified in this remarkable modern philosopher. The anxiety to put the inferences into a strict logical frame makes a naturally abstruse and abstract procedure more abstruse and abstract. The effort to present suprarational truths in terms of reason and syllogism clouds the issues more than it clarifies them. The fundamental perception, the living intuition that is behind his entire philosophy and world outlook is that of an Immanent God, a dynamic evolving Power working out the growth and redemption of mankind and the world {the apotheosis of the World, as he puts it). It is the theme which comes last in the development of his system, as the culminating conclusion of his philosophy, but it is the basic presupposition, the first principle that inspires his whole outlook, all the rest is woven and extended around this central nucleus. The other perception intimate to this basic -original perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and union, viz.,God and the World, Permanence and Flux, Unity and Multiplicity, the Universal and the Individual. The equal reality of the two poles of an integral truth is characteristic of many of the modern philosophical systems. In this respect Whitehead echoes a fundamental conclusion of Sri Aurobindo.
There is another concept in Whitehead which seems to be moulded after a parallel concept in Sri Aurobindo: it is with regard to the working out of the process of creation, the mechanism of its dynamism. It is almost a glimpse into the occult functioning of the world forces. Whitehead speaks of two principles that guide the world process, first, the principle of limitation, and second, the principle of ingress. The first one Sri Aurobindo calls the principle of concentration (and of exclusive concentration) by which the infinite and the eternal limits himself, makes himself finite and temporal and infinitesimal, the universal transforms itself into the individual and the particular. The second is the principle of descent, which is almost the corner-stone in Sri Aurobindo's system. There are layers of reality: the higher forces and formulations enter into the lower, work upon it and bring about a change and transformation, purification and redemption. All progress and evolution is due to this influx of the higher, the deeper into , the lower and superficial plane of existence.
06.03 - Types of Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first is to think on one subject in a continuous logical order. When, for example, you have to find the solution of a problem, you go step by step from one operation to another in a chain till you finally arrive at the conclusion. The thought is withdrawn from all other objects and is canalised along a single line. This is a kind of meditation, although it may not be usually known by that name. It marks a progress in the make-up of the human consciousness. For normally the mind moves at random, thoughts run about on many subjects, various, contrary and contradictory, from moment to moment. There is neither direction, consistency nor organisation: it is a confused mass of incomplete, inchoate thoughts. The control and organisation of this mass, to start with, in a limited sphere and in a definite direction, the rejection of the unnecessary and the irrelevant and the marshalling and ordering of the required elements form the first exercise towards mental growth. All high intelligence, all effective wielding of thought power needs this discipline. Under the present circumstances of the world the school-life gives the best opportunity for this development. This is a meditation that should be obligatory and universal.
The next type we may call concentration, instead of meditation. Here we do not pursue a thought-line, but fix the thought upon one object unmoved. It means a further process of withdrawing the consciousness from its habitual outgoing and dispersive movement. The thought is held at a point and attention is focussed upon it: it is continuous and unbroken attention, for example, upon an idea, a phrase (mantra) or an image. One can concentrate also upon a physical point, say, fixing the gaze upon the tip of one's nose, or on a luminous point outside etc. In this discipline the whole mind is gathered together and focussed: or, everything else is shut out leaving only one thing upon which all the light of the consciousness is directed. It is a standstill consciousness, like a flame erect and immobile in a windless place.
06.05 - The Story of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The one indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This Supreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself, witness himself in play the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion to himself, sa dwityam aichhat. This power of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move out of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditiconsciousness-power, who again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four major Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati). But this free urge, free to separate itself and proceed in an independent movement of self-expression and evolution precipitated itself immediately, almost as a logical consequence of its career of free choice, into the Denial, the Negation that is inconscience. So, against the Supreme, the Divine Consciousness, there stood out the utter unconsciousness: the Light disappeared into absolute Darkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end was the very opposite of consciousness.
It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine Consciousness Aditisaw the terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that is to grow and unfold itself, shine more and more into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away.
06.11 - The Steps of the Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The human individual is a very complex being: he is com-posed of innumerable elements, each one of which is an independent entity and has almost a personality. Not only so, the most contradictory elements are housed together. If there is a particular quality or capacity present, the very opposite of it, annulling it, as it were, will be also found along with it and embracing it.. I have seen a man brave, courageous, heroic to the extreme, flinching from no danger, facing unperturbed the utmost peril, the bravest of the brave, truly; and yet I have seen the same man cowering in abject terror, like the last of poltroons, in the presence of certain circumstances. I have seen a most generous man, giving away largely, freely, not counting any expenditure or sacrifice, without the least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in respect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education or intelligence would be incapable. These are not theoretical examples, but I have come across such persons actually in life.
The complexity arises not only in extension, but also in depth. Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any particular section of these planes or on planes above and beyond, there will be accordingly differences in the constitution or psycho-physical make-up of the individual personality. The higher one stands the richer the personality, because it lives not only on its own normal level, but also on all that are below and which it has transcended. The complete or integral man, some occultists say, possesses 365 personalities; indeed it may be much more. (The Vedas speak of the three and thirty-three and thirty-three hundred and thirty-three thousand gods that may be housed in the human vehicle the basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind).
06.18 - Value of Gymnastics, Mental or Other, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is harmful when you take to mental gymnastics only for its own sake, to exclusive intellectual acrobaticsdiscussions, disputations, verbal quibbles, etc., etc.; in that case the result attained is a disproportionate growth. But the development of the mind, even of the logical mind, can be and must be made part of the integral development, it must attain its true form, stature and strength, as a help towards and finally as an expression in its own field of the divinity, the highest and richest consciousness in man, even as the body too is to express and make concrete the supreme beauty and vigour of the perfect being.
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06.23 - Here or Elsewhere, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is easy and comfortable to go within and in an inner consciousness find and maintain a union, even a close union with the Divine. It is because of such a state of peace and bliss that many, nay, most who go there do not want to come back, to normal life upon this earth. And teachers, great or small, almost invariably, have taught that in the end it is best like that, and perhaps the only thing to do under the circumstances. For this life and this earth mean the very opposite of that inner heaven and that highest good. But some are not given this comfortable solution of the difficulty. They are asked to turn back and live the life of the earth. They are not allowed to remain cosy in a narrow room and be busy always with themselves alone. Indeed, is it not narrow egoism to seek only one's own salvation? When one has saved himself, is it not his duty the logical outcome and implication of his personal freedom that he should seek to help others in their salvation? Such was in fact the attitude of the Amitabha Buddha.
A house is on fire. It has a tarred roof. One can easily understand the fury of the fire. Some inmates who were trapped have managed to come out in time, although some-what bruised and scalded. But there were others, some children, left inside. One of those who came out rushes back again through the flames and comes and goes till all are saved. He is badly burnt, he has risked his life: he did not mind and could not remain at a safe distance. He could not be contented with saving himself, which was to be sure a sufficient gain in one respect. This soul had a consciousness of his wider self.
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Uniformed they kept the logic of their fixed place
At the bidding of the trained centurion mind.
07.40 - Service Human and Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Why do you wish to serve humanity? What is your purpose? What is your motive? Do you know in what consists the good of humanity? And do you know better than humanity itself what is good for it? Or do you know it better than the Divine? You say the Divine is everywhere, so if you serve humanity, it is the Divine whom you serve. Well, if the Divine is everywhere, he is in you too; so the best and the most logical thing should be to begin by serving yourself.
Is there then no need for service to humanity? Hospitals, nursing organisations, charitable institutions have not been useful to humanity? Has not the spirit of philanthropy mended and improved the conditions of human life?
08.02 - Order and Discipline, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are people who live in rooms apparently clean and tidy. But open a cupboard, pull out a drawer, you will find there a battlefield: all is mixed up. They have a head too that is very much like thata poor small head where ideas are in the same condition as the objects outside in the cupboard. They have not organised them, put them in order. You may take it as an absolute rule. I have never seen a man who keeps things in a disorder and yet possesses a logical brain. In him ideas like the objects are thrown together pell-mell, the most dissimilar and contradictory ideas form a jumble, they are not organised, harmonised into a higher synthesis.
Hence, to know a man's character you need not spend your time in talking to him, you just go and open a drawer of his or open his almirah, you will know. But I may speak of someone I shall tell you presently who it iswho used to live in the midst of heaps of books and papers. You enter into his room, you find piles of them everywhere. But if by chance, you were, to your misfortune, to displace a single sheet of paper, he would know perfectly well and would ask immediately who was it that had disturbed the papers. There were masses of things, on your entering you would not find your way. But each thing had its placenotes, letters, books, all in order and you could not mishandle them without his knowing it. Well, it was Sri Aurobindo. In other words, you must not confuse orderliness with poverty. Naturally if you have a few thingsa dozen books and a limited number of objectsit is easier to have them properly arranged. But what is to be aimed at is a logical order, a conscious intelligent order among a multiplicity of objects. That requires a capacity for organisation. It is a capacity which every one must acquire and possess, unless of course you are physically disabledwhen one is ill or sickly or maimed and has not the required strength: even then there is a limit. I know of sick people who could tell you: "Open me that drawer, you will find on the right or on the left or at the bottom such and such a thing." They could not themselves move and handle the things but knew where they were. Apart from such cases, the ideal must be one of order, organisation, like that of a library for example, where you have thousands and thousands of books that are yet all arranged, classified, docketed and you have only to name a title and in a few minutes the book is in your hand of course, it is not the work of a single person; even then, the pattern is there as an example to follow.
You too must organise your affairs in the same way. You need not follow another's method or system. You have your own rule, that which is convenient and true for you but it must be well planned and properly laid out.
08.08 - The Mind s Bazaar, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I propose to give you a task. You have ideas on things. You must surely have ideas on the world, life, the why of existence and the whence and the whither, wherefore we are here, our present occupation, our future realisation, etc., etc. Now try to put all these ideas in front of you and then arrange them. Will you find it easy? Surely it will amuse you and you will discover amazing things. First of all, the very work itself of exposition, that is to say, simply placing the ideas side by side in front of you, all the ideas that you have on a given subject, as if you were writing out a composition given in your class, will bring to you funny revelations. If you did not already have the habit of holding to a central idea, a central immutable truth, if that were possible, around which you arranged all the collateral ideas, organised them in a logical order, if, I say, you did not do anything like that before, you would find yourself, if not in a sad, at least in a comic situation. You can't imagine how many contradictory thoughts you are thinking in the course of an hour without the least surprise! For example, take this subject: "what is the goal towards which life is moving?" or "why do men take birth only to die?"take a subject a little general and even somewhat abstract like this and not the problem of why football today and not basket-ballthings can be easily explained away there and then try to line up all your ideas on the matter; you will see how queer the affair is.
How to distinguish between an idea that is one's own and an idea coming from elsewhere (a book or a person)?
08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It happens at times, if not quite often, that starting with a faith which you describe unshakable, the faith that the Divine alone does everything and can do everything, that whatever occurs in me or in others, everywhere, is the work of the Divine and of none other than the Divine and you continue to the logical end, apparently at least, till after a time you begin to accuse the Divine of the most frightful misdeeds, make him a veritable demon being the author or abettor of all the evils in the world.
Or you say, you have faith in the Divine, but as to this world, you know what it is and you put no trust in it. You say: "In the first instance, I suffer much, I am unlucky, much more unlucky than any other person"one is always more miserable than one's neighbour, be sure"life has been unkind to me. Now, if the Divine is divine, all kindness, all generosity, all love and harmony, how is it that I am so unfortunate? The Divine must then be powerless. Otherwise, how can he leave me in unhappiness, if he is so kind?" That is the second stumbling-block. The third one is this. There are people who are too modest, full of an excessive and misguided humility, who say: "Surely the Divine has rejected me, I am good for nothing, He can do nothing with me, it is better for me to give it all up." Such difficulties will always crop up, if along with faith you do not have complete trust in the Divine.
08.24 - On Food, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This energy that one takes in, if you reflect upon the matter you will easily admit, is the vital energy that is in the plant or the animal and logically it is of an inferior quality to that which should be man's who is supposed to be on a higher level in the scale of species. So it is impossible to eat without absorbing a large quantity of unconsciousness. Inevitably that makes you heavy and dense. And if you are in the habit of eating much, a good part of your consciousness is engaged in digesting and assimilating what you eat. Thus if you do not take food, that already frees you from this unconsciousness that you have no longer to assimilate and transform within you: in order to liberate energy in you. Then, as there is an instinct in the being to make up for the energy spent, if you do not gather it from food i.e. from below, you make automatically an effort to draw it from the universal vital energy which is free around you. And if you can assimilate that energy, assimilate it directly, then there is no limit to your energy.
It is not like your stomach which can digest only a limited quantity of food and this food again can give out only a portiona very small portionof its energy. For after the energy spent in swallowing, masticating, digesting, etc. how much of it still remains available? If, on the other hand, you learnyou learn instinctively, it is a kind of instinctto draw from the universal energy which is freely available in the world and in any quantity, you can take it in and absorb as much as you are capable of doing. Thus, as I have said, when there is not the support from below coming from food, the body makes an automatic movement to get the needed energy from the environment. It gets at times, more than enough, even an overdose and that puts you in a state of tension or stimulation. And if your body is strong and can remain without food for some time, then you can maintain your poise and utilise the energies in all waysto make inner progress, for example, to become more conscious, to change your nature. But if your body does not have much reserve, it gets easily weakened by fast, then there occurs a disharmony between the intensity of the energies you absorb and the capacity of the body to hold them and that upsets you. You lose your poise, the equilibrium of the forces is broken and anything can happen. In any case, if such a thing happens, you lose a good deal of self-control, you get excited and this unnatural excitement you consider as a higher state of consciousness. But it is an inner unbalance, nothing more. Otherwise, in that state your senses get refined and receptive. Thus when you fast and do not draw energy from below, if you smell a flower, you feel nourished, the perfume you brea the in serves as food, it gives you energy and this you would not have known but for the fasting.
08.34 - To Melt into the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One needs years of labourorganising, selecting, building up very diligently, very carefully, very rationally, very cohesively, in order simply to form oneself: to form this simple thing, for example, to think in one's own way. You believe you think in your own way, you do not know how much you depend for your thoughts upon the people you speak to, upon the books that you read, upon your varying moods; yes, it depends not unoften upon your good or bad digestion, upon the fact of your being closed in a room or free in the open air, upon the scenery around you, upon sun or shower. You do not notice it, but you think of different things in different ways according to conditions or situations which have nothing to do with your own self. So, I say, to have your thoughts coordinated, cohesive, logical, you would need a long, very long work in minute details. And then, that is the most important part of the thing, when you have come to a beautiful mental structure, well-shaped, very strong, very powerful, the first thing you will be told to do is that you must break it up, if you wish to be united with the Divine! And unless and until you have done that first part you cannot do the second part, unless you form yourself you cannot give yourself, you would have nothing to give to the Divine. You are nothing more than a mass of inchoate things which are not yourself. First you must exist, you must be, before you can give yourself.
At the present moment in the actual state of things what one can give to the Divine is one's body. But that is precisely the thing that one does not give. Yes, try to consecrate your work, your bodily labour; even there, there are so many things that are not true or correct.
08.36 - Buddha and Shankara, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is no doubt that Buddha had the first part of the experience; but he never thought of the second part, for it was contrary to his own theory. That theory was that one must escape. And it is obvious that there is only one way of escaping and that is to die. And yet, as he had said it himself very well, one may die and yet remain attached to life and continue to be in the cycle of rebirths without having the liberation. As a matter of fact, it is through the successive sojourns upon earth that one grows till one arrives at this liberation. For him the ideal is that where the world exists no longer. It is as if he accused God of having committed an error by creating a world and the only thing to be done is to repair the error by annulling it. Naturally, being thoroughly reasonable and logical, he did not admit the existence of God. But then by whom was the error committed? When and how did it come about? He never answered these questionings. He simply said that the world began with desire and with the end of desire it must end.
He was on the verge of saying that the world was purely subjective, that is to say, a collective illusion, and if the illusion ceased the world would also cease. But he did not go so far. It was Shankara who took up the line and completed the teaching.
09.11 - The Supramental Manifestation and World Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now imagine, as I have just asked you to do, that really there exists a Consciousness, a Will manifesting these combinations successively and indefinitely, never repeating twice the same thing; then we must come to the conclusion that the universe is new at each moment of eternity, and if the universe is new at each moment of eternity we are forced to admit there is nothing absolutely impossible; even further, what we call logical is not necessarily the true, and the logic or what might almost be called the fancy of the Creator has no limit to it.
Therefore, if for some reason (which it is difficult to express) a combination is not followed up by that which is nearest to it, but another one freely chosen by the Supreme Freedom, all our external certainties and all our surface logic would fall to the ground.
For, the problem is much more complicated than you imagine. It is not merely on one plane, in one domain, that is to say, what may be called the surface of things, that there is this almost infinite quantity of elements allowing combinations eternally new. There is more than that, there is what may be termed depth, that is to say, other dimensions.
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Each time a new element is introduced into the sum total of possible combinations, it is as it were a tearing of its limits; the introduction of something that effaces the past limits, brings in new possibilities into play, multiplies indefinitely the old possibilities. You had, for example, a world as the ancient knowledge found it, with twelve layers of depth or successive dimensions. Now suppose in this world of twelve dimensions suddenly other dimensions were precipitated; all the old formulas would be changed immediately and the whole possibility according to the old unfolding would be, one cannot say increased, but supplemented by an almost infinite number of new possibilities, and that in such a manner that all the old logic would become il logical in the presence of the new logic.
I do not speak at all of what the human mind has made of the universe, because that is a reduction to its own dimension. I speak of the fact as it is, of the sum total of combinations that realise themselves successively according to an order and a choice which evidently escape wholly the human consciousness, a sum total to which man has somewhat adapted himself and has at last succeeded in giving an expression that links itself to something tangible, after a great effort of study made through the centuries.
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There is no such truth. For, if you are logical, that is to say, with a little higher logic, how can you say that a thing repeats itself, since there are no two things, no two combinations, no two universal manifestations that are the same? The "sameness" could be only an appearance, not a fact. The mind sets up rigid laws, and when it does that, you do not cut yourself off from the apparent surface existence, for the surface, in a very obliging manner, seems to satisfy these laws. But that is an appearance, and it does cut you off from the creative Power of the Spirit, cut you off from the true Power of Grace. You can understand that if, by your aspiration and your attitude, you bring down a higher element, a new elementwhich now we may call the Supramentalinto the existing combinations, you can all on a sudden change their nature and then all these so-called necessary and inexorable laws become absurdities. It is you, with your conception, your attitude, your acceptance of certain so-called principles, it is yourself who shut the door against the possibility of what you call miracles. They are not miracles, if you know how they come about, but evidently for your consciousness they have the look of the miraculous.
It is you who say with a logic that appears quite reasonable: "If I do this, necessarily this will happen," or "If I do not do this, this other thing will surely come about," and that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace.
How good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and that it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic that is accessible to the human thought, but according to another kind of logic, the logic of the unforeseen!
Then there would be no limit to the possibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world as it is.
All this I am telling you so that each one of you may put as few barriers as possible against future possibilities. And that is my conclusion.
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
That seems to be very logical to us. Therefore, we feel that we can predict things
in terms of certain minor constituents of wholes. That is the way much of our
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Yet that is exactly what happens with chrome-nickel- steel. If our regular logic
held true, then the iron as the weakest part ought to adulterate the whole: since it
1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
I will ask a question. We eat food every day so that we may be alive. But why do we want to be alive? Is there a purpose behind it? This question we cannot answer. Here is a question which is beyond ordinary logic. Why should we work so hard, and eat, and maintain ourselves, and exist? After all, we are doing all this for existing. Why do we want to exist? Suppose we do not exist; what is the harm? These kinds of questions will be pressing themselves forward when we go deep into the aims of the different activities of our life. Finally, when we press the aim to its logical limits, we will find that the human brain is not meant to understand it.
We are limited individuals, with limited capacities of understanding, and we can have only limited aims in our life but we have unlimited desires. This is a contradiction. How can unlimited desires be fulfilled with limited aims? Life is a contradiction; it has begun as a contradiction, and it ends as a contradiction. This is the reason why not one has slept peacefully, or woken up peacefully, nor lives peacefully. There is a subtle contradiction in sleep and a pressing contradiction when we wake up, and an annoying contradiction throughout our daily activities, so that there is only contradiction. There is nothing else in life; and all effort is meant to remove this contradiction. But if the very effort at removing contradiction is itself involved in a contradiction, then we are in a mess, and this is exactly what has happened to Tom, Dick, Harry, X, Y, Z, A, B, C, D whoever it is.
10.06 - Beyond the Dualities, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is true that mind in its natural state seeks the truth, seeks to know the fact, know what is what. But the difficulty is, it has its own criterion of truth, it has a mould and whatever does not fit into that mould is brushed aside or doubted as untruth. The most simple and the most categorical of its canons is that a thing is always itself and cannot be anything else (it is the famous logical law of identity and law of contradiction). One is always one and cannot be two. So by extension the mind affirms if the reality is one it cannot be also many. If the Brahman is there, the world cannot be, and if the world is there, Brahman cannot be. There begins also the unending theo logical dispute that either God has a form or He is formless. He cannot be both at the same time.
What the mind forgets or ignores is that the law of self-contradiction belongs exclusively to the finite. It does not hold good in infinity. The Infinite is infinite because it has transcended the laws and categories of the finite, even as Eternity has transcended the temporal. In the transcendental consciousness the reality is single and multiple at the same time, simultaneously (although the conception of time is not there at all); also God is both with form and without form at the same time. The mind may not be able to conceive it but the fact is that, for one can rise above the mind and see and experience the reality.
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Asmita or egoism, which is the principle of the affirmation of a particular condition of individuality, is the reason for a particular love or hatred under given conditions. This affirmation of individuality is a peculiar thing, which cannot be understood by the intellect, by ordinary logic. Whatever be the condition with which consciousness identifies itself, that is affirmed by the ego, so that the ego does not have a set pattern it goes on changing itself. "Today I assert myself as a collector; tomorrow I assert myself as a minister." Though the principle of assertion is the same, the way of its function is different. The principle, and not merely the function, has to be tackled. It is not important to know what kind of food we want. We may want chapatti, or rice, or dal, or bread, or jam, or butter; that is not important. What is important is why we are feeling hungry that is the principle behind eating. What we eat is a minor detail, but it is why we eat that is important.
Likewise, what type of assertion we are making is a different matter it is a detail. But why we are making this assertion at all is the subject for analysis in yoga. Why is it that today we identify ourself as a sannyasi "I am a mandaleshwar" and we go on asserting that we are mandaleshwars; we are officers; we are such and such; we are this and that. This principle of affirmation is a peculiar twist in consciousness that has got identified with a changing condition. Every condition changes. We cannot have a permanent condition in life, so the affirmation of the ego also goes on changing. How do we know what we were in the previous birth? We had a different type of affirmation at that time. Who was our father in a previous birth? Who was our mother? And what has happened to that father and that mother? We have completely forgotten them. We now have another father and mother. In the next birth, what will happen to us? We will have some other father and mother. How many fathers? How many mothers? How many sisters? How many brothers? How many friends? How many enemies? So, who is our friend and who is our enemy? Who is our father and who is our mother.
1.009 - Perception and Reality, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Here we go to a realm where the revelations of the ancient masters, which are embodied in the sacred scriptures, become our guide. Otherwise we shall be blind we will know nothing. The great masters who are the Gurus of mankind, who had plumbed the depths of being and had vision of the cosmic mystery, tell us something which the intellect cannot explain inductively, logically or scientifically. Our individual existence is caused by something which is prior to the manifestation of individuality and, therefore, let not the individual intellect interfere with this subject.
The masters, whose records we have in such scriptures as the Upanishads, for example, tell us that there is a cosmic mystery behind this operation of individuality namely, the diversification of the Comic Principle. We cannot ask as to why it happened, because the intellect is interfering here. We are asking the reason why the intellect is there at all, and why individuality is there at all. That question cannot be asked because this intellect is an effect of individuality, and now we are trying to find the cause thereof. "Unbridled intellect is an obstacle," says Sankara in his commentary on the Brahma Sutras, because the intellect will insist that there is diversity. It will oblige us to accept that individuality is real, objects are real, our relationships to them must be real, and so forth. So we should not take the advice of the intellect hereafter. The mystery of cosmic manifestation, which is the diversification of the cosmic principle, is regarded as the controlling principle behind the existence and the functioning of the individual.
--- Overview of noun logic
The noun logic has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (2) logic ::: (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
2. (2) logic ::: (reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic")
3. (1) logic ::: (the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war")
4. logic ::: (the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations)
5. logic, logical system, system of logic ::: (a system of reasoning)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun logic
5 senses of logic
Sense 1
logic
=> philosophy
=> humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
=> discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
=> knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
logic
=> common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
=> sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
=> wisdom, sapience
=> know-how
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
logic
=> principle
=> law, natural law
=> concept, conception, construct
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
logic
=> system, system of rules
=> method
=> know-how
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
logic, logical system, system of logic
=> system, system of rules
=> method
=> know-how
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun logic
2 of 5 senses of logic
Sense 1
logic
=> modal logic
Sense 5
logic, logical system, system of logic
=> Aristotelian logic
=> symbolic logic, mathematical logic, formal logic
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun logic
5 senses of logic
Sense 1
logic
=> philosophy
Sense 2
logic
=> common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
Sense 3
logic
=> principle
Sense 4
logic
=> system, system of rules
Sense 5
logic, logical system, system of logic
=> system, system of rules
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun logic
5 senses of logic
Sense 1
logic
-> philosophy
=> ethics, moral philosophy
=> etiology, aetiology
=> aesthetics, esthetics
=> axiology
=> jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy
=> metaphysics
=> dialectic
=> logic
=> epistemology
=> transcendentalism, transcendental philosophy
Sense 2
logic
-> common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
=> logic
=> nous
=> road sense
Sense 3
logic
-> principle
=> dictate
=> fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
=> logic
=> pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle
=> reality principle
=> insurrectionism
=> conservation
=> Tao
Sense 4
logic
-> system, system of rules
=> accounting
=> discipline
=> frame of reference, frame
=> gambling system
=> government
=> honor system
=> logic, logical system, system of logic
=> merit system
=> point system
=> spoils system
=> organon
=> program, programme
=> theosophy
=> anthroposophy
=> logic
=> theology, theological system
=> ethic, ethical code
Sense 5
logic, logical system, system of logic
-> system, system of rules
=> accounting
=> discipline
=> frame of reference, frame
=> gambling system
=> government
=> honor system
=> logic, logical system, system of logic
=> merit system
=> point system
=> spoils system
=> organon
=> program, programme
=> theosophy
=> anthroposophy
=> logic
=> theology, theological system
=> ethic, ethical code
--- Grep of noun logic
alethic logic
aristotelian logic
boolean logic
deontic logic
doxastic logic
epistemic logic
formal logic
fuzzy logic
illogic
logic
logic bomb
logic diagram
logic element
logic gate
logic operation
logic programing
logic programming
logical argument
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logical fallacy
logical implication
logical operation
logical positivism
logical positivist
logical proof
logical quantifier
logical relation
logical system
logical thinking
logical topology
logicality
logicalness
logician
logicism
mathematical logic
modal logic
propositional logic
symbolic logic
system of logic