Quotes About Reason

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Common sense is not so common.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.

When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!

But Walt didn't chase the car, for some reason. That was my first hint that people don't always understand how to have fun. They need dogs to show them.

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.

To me the supreme aim (of "arranging" one's ideas and writing poetry) is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Reason requires that I approve The light-bulb which I cannot love

Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished features; Saw in the lion's intolerant look, Behind the quarry's dying glare, Love raging for, the personal glory That reason's gift would add, The liberal appetite and power, The rightness of a god. ...

I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.