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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of causal reasoning lies in the ability to reason about interventions.

From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

Human intelligence is not merely a product of data; it involves complex reasoning.

From Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

The principle of non-contradiction is the foundation of all logical reasoning.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

What is rational is real; what is real is rational.

From The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel

Reason is the light that guides us through the darkness of ignorance.

From The Philosophical Breakfast Club by Laura J. Snyder

Mathematics is the music of reason.

From Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

The mind is a battlefield where reason and emotion clash.

From The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean

The use of reason is to be distinguished from the use of the senses.

From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes

The intersection of faith and reason is a complex journey.

From Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all intuitive and we reason to justify our intuitions.

From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

To be moral is to act according to the dictates of reason.

From The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

The understanding can only think that which it produces itself, according to its own rules.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

From The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel

Reason is the foundation of science, and science is the path to understanding the universe.

From The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick

Causal diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning.

From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

Causation is the foundation of our reasoning.

From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

The use of reason is the best way to understand the world.

From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.

From The Odyssey by Homer

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Human reason has a tendency to go beyond the limits of experience.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Causal diagrams help us visualize relationships and reason more effectively.

From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

The rise of reason, science, and humanism is the key to reducing violence.

From The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

Reason is the light that illuminates the path of understanding.

From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb

Deductive logic is not sufficient for scientific reasoning.

From The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

The critique of pure reason is a judgment of reason upon itself.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The understanding does not derive its laws from, but imposes them upon, the objects of experience.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Emotions are not enemies; they are signals that can inform your reasoning.

From Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky

The main goal of AI research is to create systems that can reason, learn, and act autonomously.

From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

The mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

From Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The real challenge lies in creating systems that can reason and learn in a human-like manner.

From Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

The critique of pure reason must be a critique of the faculty of reason itself.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

To create safe AI, we must understand the limitations of our own reasoning.

From The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian

The use of reason is to be preferred to that of the senses.

From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes

Imagination is crucial to our ability to reason and understand the world around us.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche