Quote by David A. White

“In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and confusion sets…

— Kinoko Nasu

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency…

— George Henry Lewes

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct us, that…

— Immanuel Kant

“The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The”

— Ayn Rand

“To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a…

— Edward De Bono

“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by…

— Immanuel Kant

“Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.”

— Victor Hugo

“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the…

— André Breton