1,806 Quotes About Reason

Not every reason is reasonable.

We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all.

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge.

Each of us must be the maker of modern earth, and for that, three things are needed - reason, courage and warmth.

I might as well have struggled with a bear or reasoned with a lunatic.