1,806 Quotes About Reason

The very condition of life is expansion.

Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.

Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

In an excuse to drink lies reason not to drink.

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Much as we advocate a Logos world, we don’t want to kill off Mythos – because we would kill off our own humanity if we did so. It’s all about getting the balance right. We must have a rational society, but with plenty of scope for Mythos exploration, fantasy and fun. Society must be run according to rationality, but our vital recreational time must be all about feeling, narrative, communication and fun.