Reason Quotes - Page 8

• Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Enemy, Aids

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.164

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• The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

  Leo Rosten

  Writing, Story Writers, Helping

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• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Political, Innovation

  1905-6 The Life of Reason,'Reason in Religion'.

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• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.144, Penguin

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• Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Self, Religion

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• You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Success, Sports, Mistake

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• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Christianity, Almighty

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• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

  Louis Aragon

  Dream, Reality, Wake Up

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• A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Noble

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Law, Goodness

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

  Dan Millman

  Peaceful Warrior, Way Of The Warrior

  Dan Millman (2007). “Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives”, p.143, H J Kramer

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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• An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Light, Shining, Flash

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.75

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• The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hilarious, Complaining, Classic

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.20, Collector's Library

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• And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parent, Gone, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

  Alexander Pope

  Care, Able

  Alexander Pope (1871). “Essay on Man”, p.50

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• If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Doctrine, Needs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Failure, Giving, Doubt

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.174

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• Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Connections

  "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". Book by Sam Harris, 2004.

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• The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Thinking, Deception

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Political, Feelings, Liberty

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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