Sentence examples for reason and understanding from inspiring English sources

I asked myself whether it still makes sense to strive for a peaceful society based on reason and understanding.

For Aristotle, strictly speaking, happiness simply is the exercise of the highest virtues, those of theoretical reason and understanding.

This comes from my experience in the military environment, which can be a very competitive environment, but you still have to have the ability to show compassion and reason and understanding and logic, because people respect those qualities.

However, even though experience may serve as a foundation for Wolff, he nonetheless dogmatically champions reason and understanding as the keys to philosophical certainty.

From the first criticisms onwards, sentimentalists emphasized the limits of reason and understanding when it comes to explaining or justifying moral judgments, determining moral truth, and motivating moral action.

"Animals, despite the fact that they lack reason and understanding, do not make colors the cause of conflict.

For these reasons, role perceptions and understandings about information exchange (content and direction) need to be surfaced early in the programme and revisited throughout to avoid threats to an honest, critical and uncompromised evaluation process.

Striking words but poor substitutes for understanding, reason and real knowledge.

Your thoughts and deeds are beyond human instinct and reason, and are evil beyond rational understanding.

"It's an insult to our intelligence and common sense and is exactly that loss of reason and scientific understanding that they promised they wouldn't lose when we left.

Ron Novick Orange, Conn., Dec. 1, 2008 • To the Editor: Roger Cohen hits the nail on the head when he endorses Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's assessment of Israel's need to reverse its intransigent position toward the Palestinians and to deal with the issue headlong, with reason and with historical understanding.