1 The best of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely wounded by the want of respect of logic.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 This logic was known to the ancients.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 3 With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 4 By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, Combeferre represented its philosophy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 5 From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy creation, logic of darkness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 6 Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the candle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 7 They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 8 Then ask logic of passion if you will.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS 9 The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 10 Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste and language, which must grow broader like all the rest.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 11 Moreover, by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.
12 Victor thought there would be more logic in thus disposing of old people with an established claim for making themselves universally obnoxious.
13 Like a certain class of modern philosophers, Dinah perfectly scorned logic and reason in every shape, and always took refuge in intuitive certainty; and here she was perfectly impregnable.
14 You don't need logic, I hope, to put a bit of bread in your mouth when you're hungry.
15 But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.