Reason Quotes

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Robin Morgan

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

John Pierpont Morgan

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Leo Tolstoy

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

Blaise Pascal

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them

Abraham Lincoln

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

William Warburton

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Jane Austen

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Leo Tolstoy

Reason is the enemy of faith

Martin Luther King Jr.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man

Ayn Rand

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

Leo Tolstoy

l'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son désir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.

Albert Camus

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Friedrich Nietzsche