Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"To understand a name, you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess!"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"I prefer the company of peasants, because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius, coming from reason and imagination, rarely"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"To be a real philosopher, all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The intellect is always fooled by the heart"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance, but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"Passion is the mob of the man that commits a riot upon his reason"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Common sense is calculation applied to life"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

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