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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.

— Joseph Dietzgen Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

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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)

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)

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