Argument Quote by Thomas Nagel

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because…

— Steven Pinker

“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

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

— Karl Marx

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley

“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once…

— Steven Pinker

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

— Bill Hicks

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words,…

— William James

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different…

— Sheena Iyengar

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

— John Ralston Saul

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

— J. M. Coetzee

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

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

— Thomas Paine