Quotes About Reason

a man doesn't want something reasonable, but practical.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory. This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

What are you going to use?" "Common sense?

Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage as an admirable social institution. She never scorns love, but balances it often . . . with a firm advocacy of . . . the qualities of self-knowledge, self-discipline, and practicality.

It gives one a reason to fight the French, certainly, sir." "I have never needed a reason, Mr Murray – it has always seemed the most natural of occupations to me. I have come to believe that the French were created merely so that the pugnacious English would have a legitimate target for their aggression.

We live in a void, Prim. There is us and nothing else that is real, except that which we make. Reason is one of those things we invent to help us find our way. We have to find some goal. I have you and a comfortable life, and our family.

Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable.

Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour".

carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.

No. I rarely laugh. I really need to have a good reason to laugh.

The merchant, lowering his head, said nothing. 'Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable. What we need is kindness. My father taught me that and I teach it to my sons.

Love mocks good sense. That's its charm and beauty.

As on all Viroleda blades, the traditional inscription: 'Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour.

Time fades away, in other words; it's not any reason for us to give up trying to make it better.

Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion.

The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.

he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

But surely Adonai, creator of everything good, would create nothing unless it had a reason for being.

protect, like soldiers; and those who govern. He says the producers align with the appetite of man, the protectors with the spirit of man, and those who govern with the reason of man.