Quotes About Reasoning

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.

Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.

Perché questa stupenda scienza applicata che risparmia lavoro e rende la vita più facile ci porta così poca felicità? La risposta è semplice: perché non abbiamo ancora imparato a farne un uso assennato

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Random quotes don't constitute an argument.

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own, and is capable of anything except inteligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

No podemos salir de nuestra irracionalidad fundamental por medio del razonamiento. Lo único que podemos hacer es aprender el arte de ser irracional en forma racional.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Systematic reasoning is something we could not, as a species or as individuals, possibly do without. But neither, if we are to remain sane, can we possibly do without direct perception, the more unsystematic the better, of the inner and outer worlds into which we have been born.

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons, that's philosophy.

As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons -- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness—to be aware of it and yet to remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning.