Quotes About Reason

se dio esiste, spero che abbia una scusa valida.

I ask the reader- is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world? The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.

I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.

Where there is doubt, faith has its reason for being. Clearly faith is not needed where certainty supposedly exists, but only in situations where doubt is possible, even present.

There were other worlds than this one, and he could see no reason why Heaven would send him to a worse one.

Faith was praiseworthy, but should be seasoned with intelligence.

The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and make bad choices.

If routine is the reason I am still alive, my cat is probably the reason I am still single.

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.

the conclusion that Jesus said `Abba' to God for precisely the same reason that (most of) his contemporaries refrained from its use in prayer - viz., because it expressed his attitude to God as Father, his experience of God as one of unusual intimacy.60

Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.

The intellectual normally values reason above all, Dover demonstrates that reason divorced from emotion becomes cold, clinical and ahuman.

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.

It is therefore no exaggeration to observe that Social Justice Theorists have created a new religion, a tradition of faith that is actively hostile to reason, falsification, and disagreement of any kind

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.