Animals Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.”

— Kai Nielsen

“Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the…

— Bertrand Russell

“Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“They realized they were on the frontier of understanding, and the assumptions they formed from past experience were detrimental.”

— Nat Greene

“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but…

— John Maynard Keynes

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side." from "The Heart…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.”

— Dean Koontz

“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