Quotes About Reason

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

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

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.