1,806 Quotes About Reason

The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species.

The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.

The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.

2+2=4 in all but theoretical instances, and life is no mere theory. If we value reason we must fight for it.

Perhaps the nearest one could get to a common characteristic of poststructuralism would be a radical suspicion of reason, order and certainty as governing principles of knowledge and existence...the absurd and the irrational can no longer be distinguished from the real and the rational

Reason never leads a man into repentance.

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

Healers Don’t Exist (The Sonnet)Healers don't exist,Only humans do.Once you step outside the self,You'll see the world anew.Gods don't exist,Only goodness does.Prayers may soothe your soul,Action is what change requires.Psychics don't exist,But sanctity is everywhere.Once you stop conning your soul,The bridge ahead will vividly appear.When the heart awakens from superstition,Everybody will be hometown human.

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.