1,806 Quotes About Reason


  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

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  • Author Voltaire
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    Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it.

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  • Author A.D. Aliwat
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    The Airborne Toxic Event has in fact occurred, and it’s even worse than he imagined. Subtler, more insidious, its victims’ deaths prolonged: resembling a normal cloud more than anything obviously virulent. And one of its first victims was the Culture. What it is now is a thing without reason.

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