Quotes About Reasoning

Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic." This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling.

The situation called for a courage and calmness of reasoning that neither of us could compass, and I have never before seen so clearly conscious of two persons in me-the one that explained everything, and the other that laughed at such foolish explanations, yet was horribly afraid.

Human reasoning, she said—referring now explicitly to Socrates and Plato—human reasoning is imperfect. Human bias keeps us from perfect vision of what is happening around us. But the quest for truth—the quest to understand the world around us—must ultimately be how you enact the good.

Elusive reality does not discourage Umpire Two. We don't have to fully perceive or understand the underlying nature of our world to negotiate it well. Our senses and reasoning powers evolved as they did because they work just fine in the everyday, nonphilosophical business of survival. Mental constructs of reality are imperfect, but indispensable, ways to organize the otherwise bewildering phenomena of the world.

Some people, after all, don't care who they yell at as long as they have a reason to keep shouting.

Çünkü Romani ismin kullanmak demek; mutlaka bir plan?n?n, bir nedenin olmas? anlam?na gelir. Çünkü takma ad kullan?lan iÅŸler s?radan iÅŸler deÄŸildir. Çünkü Visily Romani s?radan bir h?rs?z deÄŸil. (syf. 130 – 131)

The natural theologian does not, typically, offer his arguments in order to convince people of God's existence; and in fact few who accept theistic belief do so because they find such an argument compelling. Instead the typical function of natural theology has been to show that religious belief is rationally acceptable.

If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.

Non, je ne vais pas vous épouser. On n'épouse pas pour un gâteau. -Le motif serait joli.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

The more you reason the less you create.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.