Logically Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words logically, proper and/or names:

    [This] atheistic [movement] must logically result in the utter annihilation of the family.
    James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    ‘Tis a queer life, and the only humour proper to it seems quiet astonishment. Others laugh, weep, sell, or proselyte. I admire.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)