"The logical man is always self-righteous and therefore inhuman and therefore wrong, while the reasonable man suspects that perhaps he is wrong and is therefore always right." Logic deprived of common sense becomes inhuman: it pushes every theory doggedly to its absurd conclusion and erects the state, the class, or the system into a god that swallows the individual. Reasonableness — "humanized thinking" — rounds out ideas and tones down their angularities. In human affairs the illogical course is often the convincing one: the postscript that contradicts the letter, the pardon that voids the argument, the unanswerable case answered with compassion.

— In our words · Source: The Importance of Living (Lin Yutang)