The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull. — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Teenage girls engage in emotional reasoning, which is the belief that if you feel something is true, it must be true. If… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The effects of using too much reasoning are that we end up questioning the existence of God, or the Creator, including our… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
