392 Quotes About Reasoning

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

End is the end of your thinking and reasoning. End is not the end of endings.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application elsewhere. Concepts developed purely for philosophy of mathematics turned out to be just what you needed to build a computer. Statistical formulae for understanding genetic change in biology are now applied in both economics and in programming.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions

There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.

Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted

In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be.