Reason Quotes

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to di...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t...

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrat...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exce...

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical dis...

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, writt...

This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and w...

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at h...

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational...

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that...

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical...

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have r...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than ...

I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which ...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with o...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That...

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.

But all remains unchanged.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is ...

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rath...

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an ex...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intell...

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conc...

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will...

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to wh...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and insep...

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely object...

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences c...

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concept...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...

TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my tho...

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning...

If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or p...

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into...

Humor is reason gone mad.

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

It's against reason," said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more complet...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such sub...

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all ...

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.