"If you follow the ways in which..." - Quote by Rumi
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.”
“There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.”
More on Logic
“The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.”
“My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?”
“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
More on Reason
“When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.”
“While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?”
“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”