R Quotes
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“Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.”
Source: Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations
“Reason is only a drug, and its effects cannot be permanent.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“Reason is our ark, love is our compass.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam. And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact”
“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.”
Source: Assignment in Eternity
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.”
“Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.”
“Reason is simply a vast tautology.”
Source: The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]
“Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.”
“Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.”
“Reason is the enemy of faith.”
“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.”
Source: Logic, or the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”
“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
“Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.”
“Reason is the life of the law.”
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.”
“Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.”
“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]”
“Reason is the most active human faculty.”
Source: Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.”
Source: Warranted Christian Belief
“Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.”
“Reason is the servant of instinct.”
“Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”
“Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.”
“Reason is the slave of passion.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it”
“Reason is the Soul of the Law.”
Source: Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right
“Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.”
“Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.”
“Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.”
“Reason is to reichs what phenyl is to floor.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.”
Source: Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994
“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if you detect a flaw in this argument, it is reason that allows you to point it out and defend an alternative.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Reason is what helps us eliminate our prejudice, but it's love that makes us want to eliminate our prejudice.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more dangerous...”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives