Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21207

No, not necessarily. It (study of Logic) is a theoretical training. You learn by it some rules of logical thinking. But. the application depends on your own intelligence. In any sphere of knowledge or action a man may be a great theorist but a poor executist. A very good military theorist and critic if put in command of an army might very well lose all his battles, not being able to put the theories rightly to the occasion. So a theoretical logician may bungle the problems of thought by want of insight, of quietness of mind or of plasticity in the use of his capacities. Besides, logic is not the whole of thinking; observation, intuition, sympathy, many-sidedness are more important.