To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“Reincarnation of soul does not happen, but reincarnation, renovation and evolution of ideas do.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don’t pay as much attention to people’s conclusions as to the reasoning that led them to their conclusions.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You’re exactly like Charlie. Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you. Of course, exactly like Charlie, you… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why not engage in aggression anyway?”… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
“A particular concept would not exist in everyday communication from a person's perspective if he or she does not know how to… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. — George Allen Copy Share Image
And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit. — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight,… — John Venn Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
