i wld like 2add another one:
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight.
In fiction she moves with ease.
Rabindranath Tagore

Splendid clip! What an insight!

An insight into what?

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

What is a mind with no logic? Better yet, what is mind that relies on logic when it is suitable, then says when it is not suitable: "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."

(It is a metaphor. Empirically 'all blade' is sensorily impossible to conceive, yet its power remains via the tensions induced by the coherent syntax of language, here the power of paradox and challenge to the teleloogical limitations of deduction and induction: poetic language has a deontological value base, as in parable, hence its challenge to the Gradgrinds of the world. It barely needs saying that at a deductive level 'translated' into the thin mind of a literalist, to say that logic is not 'all' is not to deny its importance, merely to reflect one of the Logician's most employed formulae, viz 'necessaty but not sufficient').

abailart - I always learn something new from you. I've not read Hard Times by Dickens and I should. Are the Gradgrinds of the world usually consequentialists? (asked the beginning philosophy student).

Consequentialist, utilitarian and teleological in approach. Gradgrind is a gross caricature (which is part of the fun: the mindset that Dickens is mocking will approach him as a rounded character). Mostly, Dickens' Gradgrind is divorced from imagination and the poetry of life, believes everything can be neatly classified and defined into clear-cut realities (where concepts are limpid reflections of 'reality'), and the world arranged accordingly.