Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
Raheel FarooqTags: reason philosophy will logic character justifications
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
Raheel FarooqTags: reality belief logic facts
The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.
Raheel FarooqTags: knowledge philosophy logic spirituality invisible nonexistence
All true are not truthful.
Raheel FarooqMy head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,
So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)
Tags: mind prison psychology thought logic lyrics brain justification crime criminals epistomology
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: thinking reason logic rationality argument challenge ego agreement disagreement debate self-development consensus improvement unanimity social-networking twitter tweet social-networks
Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' — but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions.
Bertrand RussellTags: philosophy logic superstition immortality contradiction proof plato proofs
They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.'
It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.
Tags: patriotism childhood psychology funny logic simplicity memories symbolism irony thoughts divorce ironic psychologist the-mind iconoclast childhood-memories over-thinking broken-home bad-memories cherry-pie
The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the process of life or society in the seventeenth century, and although there may be a nod towards astrology or the crossed finger today, superstition is not seriously used in decision making. ...
Scientific thinking, which similarly developed in the seventeenth century, has been influential in bringing this change. We now see that tornadoes and earthquakes have rational explanations in terms of climatology and seismology rather than as divine punishments. Most people when deciding whether to take a new job, embark on a divorce, or simply plan a holiday will not seek divine guidance, but rather discuss with themselves or others the issues of cause and effect.
Tags: reason humanism logic superstition evidence rational-thought decision-making secularization
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Jeff LindsayTags: logic
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