#reasoning

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ↗

— William Cowper

#every step #his #his way #instinct #known

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#act #animal #box #comparison #does

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#direct #fact #god #grand #make

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 times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh. ↗

— Hector Avalos

#bible #christianity #christianity-and-homosexuality #god #homophobia

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, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#learning #reason #reasoning #training #education

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative