Quotes About Reasoning

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

jamás la filosofía me parece tan razonable como cuando combate y reconoce nuestra presunción y vanidad, cuando de buena fe confiesa la irresolución, debilidad e ignorancia humanas.

All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.

Although consciousness is a patchwork of competing and often contradictory tendencies, the left brain ignores inconsistencies and papers over obvious gaps in order to give us a smooth sense of a single "I." In other words, the left brain is constantly making excuses, some of them harebrained and preposterous, to make sense of the world. It is constantly asking "Why?" and dreaming up excuses even if the question has no answer.

Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn't interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.

It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

When the fear becomes too great, the reasoning mind starts to fail and can no longer take all those wounds with all the poison.

We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

Cehalet, boÅŸ inançlar gibi sanayinin de anas?d?r. DüÅŸünce ve hayal gücü insan? hataya sürükleyebilir; ama ayak ya da eli hareket ettirme al??kanl??? bunlardan ne birini ne diÄŸerini gerektirir. Dolay?s?yla manifaktürler, en büyük geliÅŸme olanaklar?na, akla en az baÅŸvurulan yerlerde kavuÅŸur." Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Hell, why should I have to find a pretext for every single thing I do?

My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella,4 and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.

I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict curiosity, but without sympathy. There are two people within me: one who lives in the full sense of the word, and the other who reasons and judges him.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

No veía una llamativa desproporción entre la insignificancia de la causa y la enormidad del acto? ¿Acaso no sabía si lo que proyectaba hacer era excesivo? Sí, pero precisamente lo que le atraía era el exceso. No quería ser razonable. No quería ser comedida. No quería medir, no quería razonar. Admiraba su propia pasión, aún sabiendo que la pasión, por definición, es un exceso. Como ebria, no quería salir de esa ebriedad.

Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart

Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.

Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera.

expostulate.

Y pensar que hay gente tan ignorante que piensa que un loco no tiene argumentos!

Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate

It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.

All his life, Sherlock Holmes had believed that when one had eliminated the impossible, whatever remained —however improbable— must be the truth. Now he understood that when the impossible was too intractable to be eliminated, one had to revise one's opinion of the limits of the possible.

Todas las emociones, especialmente aquellas que son negativas, distorsionan las evaluaciones. Una persona en las garras de una emoción negativa es incapaz de pensar clara o racionalmente. Cuanto más intensa es la emoción negativa, más se desapega el sujeto de la realidad y es incapaz de razonar con claridad. Por lo mismo, habla y actúa de una manera que a menudo es inexplicable y completamente destructiva.