1,806 Quotes About Reason

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.

Reason and understanding are represented as the voluntary slaves of the senses.

...we’re a species that isn’t great at truth. We’re built to believe convenient delusions, not to be accurate.

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

Vil nogen overtale ham til at troe Ting, som strider mod de almindelige Sandser, svarer han efter den samme Artikel, at saasom Skaberen ikke kand have givet Sandserne forgieves, saa maa man bruge dem.

Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.