In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismöwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.

-Bendix, Reinhard
  Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology.

The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning.It'snothingofthekind.Thegame isabout glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

-Blanchflower, Danny (Robert Dennio)
Quoted in Hunter Davis  The Glory Game (1972).

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
  Letter to  J Fiske, 8 Dec.

All violent feelings†produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the'Pathetic Fallacy'.

-Ruskin,John
  Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.12.