Quotes About Reason

WOLLNER: I killed them because they were evil people. BAUSEN: Evil? WOLLNER: Evil people. BAUSEN: Was that the only reason? WOLLNER: It's reason enough.

How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflections, and to take pains before death to lose all the joys of life.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason.

No. The soul is embodied. And that's either the reason we're all so fucked up or the recurring melody behind humanity's greatest hits. You want another beer?

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Haven't told you in a while, but you're the reason for it all. You're a vital complication I never seem to resolve.

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Maximus knows and expressly states that "faith is true knowledge (?????? ??????) based on unprovable principles, because it is the testimony to things that lie beyond both theoretical and practical reason."69

F?r? cunoaÈ™terea estetic?, nici raÈ›iunea teoretic?, nici cea practic? nu pot s?-È™i ating? împlinirea total?.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

A tank and its crew has but one reason to exist. To maneuver the tank's cannon to a position where it could do the most damage and feed it once it was there.

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, don't you think we should soon have another version of the Scripture doctrine? What flood of light would pour the church, all at once, and immediately it would be discovered that everything in the bible and reason went the other way.

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.

When outsiders criticize Americans, they regularly note that we seem self-centered, which we are. But few contend we are selfish, and with good reason; we are not.

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.

not all students complete their assignments, often because they either cannot understand the assignment or they fail to see the reason for doing it. In both cases, the assignment may be poorly designed.

There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other forms of trouble and distress upon them. This danger is ROMANTICISM, which leads people to live, not according to their reason, but according to their emotions; that is, according to their desires, hatreds, their susceptibility to temptations and their whims.

The mind of man, which he did not ask to be given, demands a reason and a meaning--this is its self-defining cause--and yet it finds itself int he midst of a radically meaningless existence. The result: impasse. And nausea.