Capacity Quote by Alvin Plantinga

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

— J. M. Coetzee

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

— Thomas Paine

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Whereas reason is commonly viewed as the use of logic, or at least some system of rules to expand and improve our knowledge and…

— Hugo Mercier

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

— Peter Singer

“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right…

— Terry Goodkind

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

— Edward Abbey

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

— Bertrand Russell

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at…

— Anonymous

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be…

— Jean Piaget

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can…

— Karl Jaspers

“Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does…

— Hugh LaFollette