1,806 Quotes About Reason

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

We are new humans, there's nothing we cannot do.

It’s no use trying to reasonably argue with unreasonable people. Better to spend your time in more productive pursuits.

One real toddler is capable of more change than a thousand imaginary gods.

The Reverence of God is root of right reason.

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence.

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.