Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
Mathematics is the music of reason.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her
Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind;And the only way that life can go wrongis by the limited finite mind.
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God
What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
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