Quotes About Reason

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.

Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.