Quotes About Reason

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

The brave will fight whatever the odds,' Hitler said on January 18. 'But give the craven whatever weapons you will, they will always find reason enough to lay them down!

If she broke a surgeon's fingers or delved into the theft of some advanced AI technology, you could be sure that she had not only thought it through to the last particle, she would also have a reason. Salander was not one to forget an injustice. She retaliated and she righted wrongs. Could her involvement in this story be connected to her own background? It was by no means inconceivable.

Fermeture exceptionnelle, letting me know that the store was closed for an "exceptional" reason. Ruptures occur just as frequently, which means an item is out of stock.

One thing I learned on my sporadic spiritual journey was that mainstream culture's disdain and disrespect for the intellectual integrity of Christianity is unwarranted, and its conceited assumption that Christian beliefs are a product of blind faith, bereft of reason and intellect, is completely false.

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

The reason for our loving God is God.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.