Quotes About Reason

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

What did you really do to him?" Cella had to ask her. "Nothin'." "Smith," she said, stopping by the bear. "The man shit, pissed, and vomited after spending less than thirty minutes with you. There has to be a reason." "Got me. All I did was stare at him until he told me something I could use." The bear looked Smith over. "Did you stare at him with those eyes of yours?" "I have my daddy's eyes.

They were good friends, weren't they? The best of friends. She ought to be able to walk into his room and ask him the reason for his absence this evening—and the reason for his absence from her bed. But she couldn't, because it was all a sham, their friendship, at least on her part, a disguise for her true feelings, an awful solace for not being his one and only. A thing without wings.

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is reason grown courageous

Nicht in dem Zirkel des natürliches Lebens bewegt sich die Vernunft . Ihr geht um die Einsetzung der Wahrheit in der Welt. Vorgeträumt ist ihr Reich in den echten Märchen , die keine Wundergeschichten sind, sondern die wunderbare Ankunft der Gerechtigkeit meinen.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.

To return to where we started, there have always been two Jerusalems, the temporal and the celestial, both ruled more by faith and emotion than by reason and facts. And Jerusalem remains the centre of the world.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

This is perhaps the most chilling moment in Mark's account. The crowd is asked a simple question, which it refuses to answer, offering only a call for violence. The moment might stand as a warning about all those times when fear, anger, prejudice, blind obedience or blood-lust blank out reason and justice.

He was mad, and for that, we have reason to be glad. A truly savage irony, on which it is discomforting to dwell.