Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world"

Max Weber, Economist

"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking"

Humphry Davy, Scientist

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave"

William Drummond

"I think people get fixated on the example of an idea"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave"

William Drummond

"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth"

George Bancroft, Historian

"The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"

Adolf Anderssen, Celebrity

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers"

Thomas Pynchon, Writer

"The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world"

Wilford O. Cross, Writer

"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased"

Ralph A. Cram, Architect

"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes"

James Randi, Entertainer

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason"

Richard Chenevix Trench, Clergyman

"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore"

Joseph Glanvill, Writer

"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers, as it were"

Avrum Stroll, Educator

"Use your brain, not your endurance"

Peter Thomson, Athlete

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand"

Cardinal De Retz, Clergyman

"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation"

Marc Racicot, Politician

"I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own"

Anthony Collins, Philosopher

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest"

Sophocles, Author

"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Before the effect, one believes in different causes than one does after the effect"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A witty saying proves nothing"

Voltaire, Writer

"What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking"

Voltaire, Writer

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth"

Voltaire, Writer

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Skepticism is a virtue in history, as well as in philosophy"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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