Quotes About Reasoning

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...