Reason Quotes

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.

He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inf...

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, th...

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were...

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of Ame...

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like ev...

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason f...

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three foll...

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enl...

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systemati...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, a...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderin...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enli...

...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so ...

...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment...

In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purpose...

...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordi...

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conceptio...

Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by ...

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him the...

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as t...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

...I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. Mind you, this i...

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he kn...

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian s...

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgmen...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so to...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be i...

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

The sleep of reason encourages the elections.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exception...

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-...

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

Never do something for just one reason.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...