Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Logic
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
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