Philosophical Reasoning Quotes

#1. American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Saul Alinsky

#3. The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#5. If someone was to tell you that you were a witch, I think that it would be somewhat like, "You've got to be kidding me! I'm out of here! You're crazy!"

Britt Robertson

#6. You don't own Ryan. You brought him into this family, and you asked us to love him. And we do. And you can't control that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#7. I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

Franz Kafka

#8. Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.

Nick Lane

#9. Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.

Fennel Hudson

#10. The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.

Steven Magee

#11. My embarrassment was complete. If I just had passed out, that would have been bad enough. But to make matters worse, Will had carried me outside, where everyone else was; everyone in my youth group had seen Will carrying me. I felt like melting into the bench on which I sat.

Annie Riley