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You Can Only Find Truth With Logic If You Have Already Found Truth Without It.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox", via Paul Black
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic, and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterto...
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterto...
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you....
Don't open your eyes, you won't like what you see; the devils of truth steal the souls of the free.
.. don't open your eyes, take it from me. I have found you can find happiness in slavery......
Beware of the "Black Swan" fallacy. Deductive logic is tautological
here is no way to get a new truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as readily as true ones....
The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit, the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
Truly, you are a person who speaks the truth, lives the truth, abides by the truth.
And truth is, of course, stranger than fiction, and you certainly are too....
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth.
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood....
Quote #514 Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.
(This is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.) There is the truth you tell to casual strangers and acquaintances....