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It is a peculiarity of thought that it never stays with itself, but always digresses to other things.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
One who knows little may explain that little with more ease and efficacy than one who has his head stuffed full of the prescribed bunch of official wisdom.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Anything which may take possession of one’s soul shares its sublimity with all other things, and is for this reason at the same time something ordinary. Without such a dialectic clarification of our consciousness all adoration is idol worship.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
My logic deserves its proletarian qualification for the reason that it requires for its understanding the overcoming of all prejudices by which the capitalist world is held together.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Adherents of formal logic may be compared to a maker of porcelain dishes who would contend that he was simply paying attention to the form of his dishes, pots, and vases, but that he did not have anything to do with the raw material.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Logic aims to instruct the human mind as to its own nature and processes; it will lay bare the interior working of our mind for our guidance. The object of the study of logic is thought, its nature, and its proper classification.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
But it is not alone the harmony of music which has such a power over the mind. The harmony of colors, every art and science, has the same power. Even the most common craft, and the most prosaic of all prose, the chase after the dollar, may take possession of a man’s soul and prostrate him in adoration before its idol.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Much of what I have to say for my case may sound wonderful, because it runs counter to the popular prejudice, but the only witness required to prove the truth of my statements is the clear brain of my pupil, who has only to examine his own experience without preconceived notions, in order to find proofs on every hand.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Nothing can be learned without mental exertion. If you are concerned in your further development, you will recognize the Christian word as to the curse of work as untrue. Work cannot be descended from sin, for it is a blessing. You will have experienced in yourself how elated one feels after successful physical or mental work.
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)