Quotes About Reason

It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

He repeated a thing he'd said many times before—that most religions were obsessed with policing female sexual behavior, that for many it was their entire raison d'être. He described the sexual herding done by male chimpanzees. "The only difference," he said, "is that no chimp has ever claimed he was following God's orders.

The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

He repeated a thing he'd said many times before – that most religions were obessed with policing female sexual behavior, that for many it was their entire raison d'être. He described the sexual herding done by male chimpanzees. "The only difference," he said, "is that no chimp has ever claimed he was following God's orders.

Every choice you make is a right choice. What is really important is not the choice but the reason why you make it. Any choice made from fear is a disempowering choice.

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.)

Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.

What a good husband you are,' Nancy said afterward, 'always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's.' 'It's the side of reason I am on,' Teddy said. 'It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.