Quotes About Reasoning

when people learn what they believe and why, they become bold in their witness and attractive in the way they engage others in debate or dialogue.

What is the why behind everything you do?

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

Los prejuicios han nacido en ti a falta de luces y, sea razonando, sea sin razonar, hacen que tu conducta sea tan inconsecuente como extraña. Sometido a verdaderos deberes, te impones otros con los que es imposible o inútil cumplir; finalmente, buscas hacerte separar del camino en la persecución del objeto cuya posesión te parece más deseable. Nuestra unión, nuestros vínculos pasan a depender de una voluntad ajena.

logic is inevitable.

Ainsi le raisonnement avance-t-il droit sur ses deux pieds boiteux

If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.

Gregorio enseguida comprobó que la gente no tarda en convencerse de que lo que le conviene siempre que otra persona lo apoye en su razonamiento. O lo que es lo mismo: que dos opiniones solidarias forman una convicción.

enseguida comprobó que la gente no tarda en convencerse de lo que le conviene siempre que otra persona la apoye en su razonamiento. O lo que es lo mismo: que dos opiniones solidarias forman una convicción.

the ontological argument for the existence of God.

so meer Poets and meer Musicians, are as sottish as meer Drunkards are, who live in a continuall mist without seeing, or judgeing any thing clearly. A man should be learn'd in severall Sciences, and should have a rea?sonable Philosophicall, and ni some measure a Mathematicall head; to be a compleat and excellent Poet

indonesia berpenduduk (sekarang lebih dari)100 juta dengan kekayaan sumber daya alam yang mungkin lebih besar daripada negara Asia yang lain. Tidak masuk akal bagi AS untuk mengucilkan sekelompok besar orang yang duduk di atas sumber daya ini, kecuali memang ada alasan yang amat sangat kuat.

When the Word of God has spoken clearly and plainly, the unbelief of men, the reasonings of the natural mind and the wisdom of the world can be safely disregarded.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

They were lawyers, trained to argue five sides of every issue.

Now, ordinarily, when we say we know something, we can give compelling reasons for it. But when a philosopher says he knows he is holding his hand in front of him, he can give no reason that is as certain as the very thing it is meant to be a reason for. My having two hands is not less certain before I have looked at them than afterwards.

Logic is relative.

Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven't been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.

Paracelsus declared he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature, confirmed by . . . experiment and by reasoning thereon.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?