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  • You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

    Religious   Eye   Waiting  
    John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, FMS, Gerard Tracey (2006). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843”, p.274, Oxford University Press
  • It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

    Real   Mean   Simple  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.

    Real   Roots   Ontology  
  • All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

    Men   Events   Deeds  
    1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.36.
  • Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

    Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House
  • In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

    Art   Liberty   Citizens  
    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

    Two   Evil   Heaven  
  • Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

    Keith Devlin (2003). “Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition”, p.7, CRC Press
  • I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

    Art   Order   Ontology  
    Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions
  • Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

    Math   Logic   Reasoning  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

    Wish   Way   Plant  
  • One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

    Art   Practice   Silence  
  • As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

    Art   Mind   Principles  
  • God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
  • Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.230, Broadview Press
  • Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

    Dream   Sweet   Luxury  
    Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”
  • Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

    John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.42, CUP Archive
  • Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.

    Love   Wisdom   Ocean  
  • Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

    John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press
  • In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

    Links   May   Lasts  
    Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1850). “Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man”, p.402
  • The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.63, Penguin
  • Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

    Math   Technique   Add  
  • The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin
  • The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

    Mind   Myopia   Ontology  
    "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.
  • Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

    Reason   Shows   Cease  
  • The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

  • Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

    "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
  • The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

    Drinking   Sea   Dancing  
  • The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

    Math   Practice   Data  
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