1,806 Quotes About Reason

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

Let reason alone decide

You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You’re not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.

Reason is not always reasonable

Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part.

[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science.

Les meilleurs esprits ont leurs fétiches, et parfois se sentent vaguement meurtris des manques de respect de la logique.

if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other’s religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right; and therefore all the world is right, or all the world is wrong.