Quotes About Reason

La militancia de la Ilustración por la razón y por el individualismo se presentó a los primeros pensadores de la Contrailustración como el fantasma de un futuro sin dios, sin espíritu, sin pasión y sin moral.

El Posmodernismo surgió como una fuerza social entre los intelectuales, porque en las humanidades la Contrailustración derrotó a la Ilustración. La debilidad del discurso de la Ilustración para explicar la razón era su defecto irremediable.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.

Take all of this book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier and better man.

The main reason Americans buy guns is to tell themselves the story of the failure of government.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

But there is another reason for the reality of sin and evil on this side of God's love: it is only through sin that we see his grace and his love.

America is in moral and spiritual decline—and your favorite candidate or political party isn't going to fix it. Why are we in decline? The answer is that God has given us over to reprobate minds. A reprobate mind is one that doesn't use reason or discernment. It suppresses truth instead of embracing truth—just

It is well known…that the military historian is at his best when giving the names of field officers who fell in battle, and at his worst when attempting to explain the reason for the general officer to have made a certain decision at a certain time.

I have often thought that my instincts were the fools that allowed me to survive so that my "higher functions" could continue. Now I am finding that it is more the other way around. It is my ability to reason that keeps command and allows me to survive, and the things I am surviving for are those that I want by instinct: life, companionship, comfort, play.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn't there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.

No soul can withstand the sun's bones of light and reason dims when darkness falls - so we shape barrows in the night for you and your kin." "Forgive my interruption, then," said I. "The dead never interrupt," said the mason, "they but arrive.

We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.

No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

Shepard Smith has frequently been the lone voice of reason on Fox News.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.