Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Whenever i’m stung by an ant for no reason, i compare our sizes then i understand why

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin,...

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you,...

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

Having a reason for those reasons can not be a reason for those reasons you are having for those reasons.

Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning.

Success shouldn’t be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it – to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed...

I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist,...

… insanity is never reasonable.

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]– 4

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same “reasoning” to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they’d soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child...

Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our...

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’...

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]– 4

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

Constitution of souls is beyond the comprehension of science. This is beyond reasoning.….faith starts where reasoning ends. Science of souls begins where science of body ends.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other”. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,’ was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Things don’t happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate.

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices...

The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first...

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems—general and specific statements—can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It...

«En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar», decía Herbert. «Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo.»

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens,...

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

hapIf you’re brighter than a lightning bug, don’t show your ass

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ‘ heart’ is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard.” ~R. Alan Woods (“Just Keeping...

By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical...

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.