Quotes About Reason

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Though patriarchy often claims a monopoly on rationality and reason, those committed to it will discount the most verifiable, coherent, ordinary story told by a woman and accept any fantastical account by a man, will pretend sexual violence is rare and false accusations common, and so forth.

La raison rétrécit la vie, comme l'eau rétrécit les tricots de laine, si bien qu'on s'y sent coincé et on ne peut plus lever les bras.

A prophet, claim the Shi'ah, is someone who has, by the divine will, become conscious of God's eternal message, which forever envelops creation like a numinous ether we cannot escape, while the Imam is someone who explicates that message for those who possess neither the prophetic consciousness necessary to recognize it nor the power of reason to understand it. Put another way, the prophet transmits the Message of God, while the Imam translates it for human beings.

Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.

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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

Her ÅŸeyin bir sebebi vard?r. Masan?z?n üzerindeki k?r?nt? kahvalt?da yediÄŸiniz ekmeÄŸi hat?rlatan gizemli bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, sadece siz onu oradan kald?rmamay? seçtiÄŸiniz için oradad?r. Bunun istisnas? yoktur.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial.

Instinct is no match for reason.

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

We should always be open-minded, but the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise . . . without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;

Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition.

others to disagree with you. Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others. Question everything.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Richard Dawkins

My passion is based on evidence.

Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

Richard Dawkins