Quotes about Thinking and Reasoning

“Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there’d been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found out what you had to have.”

– TOBIAS WOLFF “Two Boys and a Girl” in The Night in Question

“Whereas most of us, I suspect do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”

– JULIAN BARNES The Sense of and Ending