Quotes About Reason

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.