Quotes About Reason

The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power.

I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

On earth, Marguerite said, when you fell asleep, you sometimes dreamed your heaven and those dreams helped to form it. But there was no reason for such dreams now.

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

Let us remove God from the equation, shall we?

E così, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perché ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura

If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, 'Because it was he; because it was I.' There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.

The West developed the notion of the "corporate body," the senate or representative assembly; Islam did not. The West, in a secularization of the Catholic corpus mysticum, eventually developed the idea of the corporation that lies at the heart of capitalism; Islam did not. Western science has the notions of the fact-value distinction, genuine critical analysis, and provisional truth; Islam keeps reason subordinate to faith.

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

If the only answer is silence, sit down, regain your calm, and combat terror with reason. Once you have calmed down, start doing the right things.

Look at your fears; hold them up to the light of reason. Learn to laugh at your fears. That is the best medicine. Nothing can disturb you but your own thought.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Air raid warning Yellow', she had experienced the unhealthy glow of excitement that she might easily become a air raid addict, or take to air raids in the same way that people do to drugs, and for much the same reason.

Because my demon told me to" isn't a generally accepted reason

Desire backed by faith, pushed reason aside, and inspired me to carry on.

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.

Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.--Don Anacleto

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

It's impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we're looking at God, race, or national pride.

Es imposible iniciar un diálogo racional con una persona respecto a creencias y conceptos que no ha adquirido mediante la razón.