Quotes About Reason

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Qabalists assert that Reason is a weapon inadequate to the Search for Reality since its nature is essentially self-contradictory. Hume and Kant both saw this; but the one became a sceptic in the widest sense of the term, and with the other, the conclusion hid itself behind a verbose transcendentalism.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

Things should make sense, and half the time they don't. Stuff that shouldn't make sense, half the time does.

I mean, when certain beliefs and traditions survive for centuries, there's a reason for it." "Sure there is, human beings are, and always have been, gullible. And there are, and always have been, individuals who know how to exploit that gullibility.

In the real world of good and evil, good doesn't have a party if they've got a reason to think evil might try to crash.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.