Quotes About Reason

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

Logic cannot comprehend love

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.