Quotes About Reason

As for the theory that these accounts were, perhaps, just stories – confections of creative minds – Gurney's response was scathing. "When we submit the theory of deliberate falsification to the cumulative test…there comes a point where the reason rebels", Gurney wrote.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

And now comes the summer of violence And my youth is as dead as the springtime O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

It's a chicken instinct. He's here for a reason. It's time to step in, face Deus Brânquia, force Hoffstetler's experiments to completion. No, not Deus Brânquia. The asset, that's all it is. Why has he started thinking of it as Deus Brânquia again? He's got to stop that. The good old Alabama Howdy-do, the heavy-duty Farm-Master 30 cattle prod, is long and straight in his palm, a handrail guiding him from an opiate haze back into the real world.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN

This explains why the characters in the Mahabharata and in other texts of the classical Indian tradition prefer to depend on reason rather than on blind faith. 56

But since everything has its reason, and the fantasy of an individual seems to me just as legitimate as the appetite of a million men and capable of holding just as important a place in the world, we must… live for our vocation, climb up into our ivory tower, and there, like a dancer amid her perfumes, remain alone with our dreams.

Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason

All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason.

No se trata de supersticiones de otra época definitivamente expulsadas por la razón. En su eterna lucha contra la razón, el sentimiento no ha sido jamás vencido. Las masas no quieren escuchar ya las palabras divinidad y religión que las han dominado durante tanto tiempo; pero ninguna época las ha visto elevar tantas estatuas y altares como desde hace un siglo.

Dejemos pues la razón a los filósofos, pero no exijamos que intervenga demasiado en el gobierno de los hombres. No con la razón, sino a pesar de ella, se han creado sentimientos tales como el honor, la abnegación, la fe religiosa, el amor a la gloria y a la patria, que han sido hasta ahora los grandes resortes de todas las civilizaciones.

Experience has not taught them as yet to a sufficient degree that men never shape their conduct upon the teaching of pure reason.

Were peoples only to be credited with the great actions performed in cold blood, the annals of the world would register but few of them.

But I want more. I want reasons to have faith in my faith, to have a reasonable confidence that there is actually truth in what my religion teaches me about God and my relation to God. And that faith has to be based on something within myself that I already trust: it has to be consonant with my experience of the universe and my abilities to reason about that universe.

reason is much more prosaic, and is simply that meta-phora is Greek for 'carry across' (meta = 'across', phor = 'carry'). Or to use the Latin equivalent, meta-phor just means trans-fer.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

Surely, surely, if we are not simple animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed." "And the reason is? for you?" "Power, Jehane. A bastion. A way to be as secure as this uncertain world allows, with a chance to build something for my sons to hold onto after I die.

Pienso que las dos versiones son ciertas, adversariamente verdaderas. Se contradicen sólo en el pasado impenetrable y nebuloso de donde surgen, pero se funden y se completan en la simultaneidad del presente, donde puedo entender que todos tenían razón y que la verdad no existe sino en la suma de las razones encontradas, pues la verdad es siempre el resto opaco de las cosas

To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.