Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

E. T. Bell

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

E. T. Bell

"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

E. T. Bell

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"

Orson Welles, Actor

Orson Welles

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Language is a part of our organism, and no less complicated than it"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

Scott Adams

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals, but it had no logic"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

W. Edwards Deming

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock"

Anaxagoras, Philosopher

Anaxagoras

"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism?"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"I am a very bottom-up thinker"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

Ken Thompson

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere, even the careless, the most stupid thinker"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Gardening is not a rational act"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

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