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Logic & Reason |
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 | To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 27 likes |
 | All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 13 likes |
 | Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 12 likes |
 | When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 12 likes |
 | Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
| The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes |
 | We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 8 likes |
 | Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 8 likes |
 | People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 7 likes |
 | Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logic the Knowledge of the Mind. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 7 likes |
 | Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquillity and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 6 likes |
 | Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | Elementary rules of logic: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 5 likes |
 | The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 5 likes |
 | The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
| Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 4 likes |
| If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
| Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 3 likes |
 | Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Reason is mechanical, humor chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 3 likes |
 | Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. |
 | Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach. |
 | It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
 | If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. |
 | Reason is useless before the event and odious afterwards. |
| Reason is made up of truths that must be told and truths that are not to be told. |
 | A page of history is worth a volume of logic. |
 | Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched. |
 | Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe. |
| It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. |
 | He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. |
 | Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. |
 | When Reason died, then Wisdom was born. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | When you want to enjoy something, you must never let logic get too much in the way. |
 | When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. |
 | Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. |
 | Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable |
 | There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
 | Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. |
 | Logic is to grammar what the meaning of the words is to their sound. |
 | In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work. |
 | Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won’t work out. |
Ancient Greek
 | For persuasion, reasoning is far stronger than gold. Ισχυρότερος ες πειθώ λόγος πολλαχή γίνεται χρυσού. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Τω λογικώ ζώω μόνον αφόρητόν εστι το άλογον. Το δ’ εύλογον φορητόν. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Elementary, my dear Watson. Purely elementary. — from the film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) 5 likes |
