1,806 Quotes About Reason

The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.

Reason, you'll always be half-blind.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.