Quotes About Reason

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. "Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. "Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

He didn't know anything about wizards, or magic, but no one would send Kahlan through the boundary, through the underworld, without a powerful reason. He wondered what could be that important.

Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason.

The weapon which most readily conquers reason is terror and violence

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

rational thoughts made out of insane components.

Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.

The hated have no reason to love.

Without reason, there is no concentration. Without concentration, there is no reason.

Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artists all.

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

We set up finishes for a reason so that you can build drama, work towards that finish. The drama is you don't quite get to hit it and that's why you didn't win that night. Had you hit that particular move, you would've won. Not that you hit it 4 or 5 times and the guy kicked out because guess what, it's no longer a finish.

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

There is a reason I am labeled 'The Most Expensive Body On Earth.'

A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life.

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

It didn't matter what my heart said, I reminded myself. My heart told me stupid stuff all the time. My heart should just shut the hell up.

For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's