Quotes About Reason

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing – such as a religion – as his own flag and carries it all his life and even dies for it! An intelligent man has only one flag: Flag of reason and science!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely within you, your natural light cannot assist this process but must become a pure nothingness, going out of itself. Only then can God enter with his light, bringing back with him all that you have renounced and a thousand times more, including a new form which contains all things in itself.

Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.

The light is satisfied only in the innermost place, where no one dwells. It is within you even deeper than you are in yourself. It is the ground of simple silence that is motionless in itself. Yet from its stillness, all things move and all things receive their life, that they may live in accordance with this reason (vernunftecliche) and be conformed to it within themselves.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, will require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition. With this consequence I will confess that I flattered myself for a while; but now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify.

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?

There is beauty in the world. There is no reason for it to be here. If it's all biology, all eating and getting eaten and the strongest devouring the weakest, then it's madness. Nothing more than madness. It's dying and drowning, and all love is illusion. But there is love, you see. Poor, weak, and broken love—a sign of something from a distant land.

Two fundamental gifts of God have been corrupted: the light of reason in the West, the fire of authentic spirituality in the East.

Theophilos, the light of reason that we both reverence is not a god. Neither does the highest development of the human mind confer divinity upon us. We may quote Aristotle one moment and in the next find ourselves betraying our wives and children—for the sake of passion, in the name of love—and not know how we arrived at that lamentable state. Reason is a gift of God but of itself cannot ennoble a man.

Capitalism is Crapitalism. It's a crap system for everyone other than the rich elite. But there is a cure – meritocracy. Meritocracy is about putting the world's smartest people in charge, those who follow Logos rather than Mythos. They will rule via reason and logic, not via violence, religious stories, or wealth. Humanity, at last, will be free.

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

Bir duygu, hakk?nda aç?k bir fikir olu?turdu?umuz anda ihtiras olmaktan ç?kar." - Spinoza

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.