Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"In doubtful cases, the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? Are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Those who know how to think need no teachers"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"I am neither bitter nor cynical, but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts, but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, Writer

Douglas Adams

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Childhood is the sleep of reason"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

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