Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: Some horses run faster than others"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

Leo Rosten

"I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"To think is to differ"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"We only think when we are confronted with problems"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"By 'object' is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Logic is in the eye of the logician"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"The longer mathematics lives, the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

E. T. Bell

"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

E. T. Bell

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