R Quotes
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“Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.”
“Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?”
Source: Wolf Solent
“Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.”
“Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.”
“Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
[Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]”
“Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?"
"The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.”
Source: Warbreaker
“Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.”
“Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.”
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
“Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.”
Source: The Keeper of the Bees
“Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.”
Source: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
“Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.”
“Reason may be the road to progress, but it's warmth that makes that progress fit for the humans.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.”
“Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.”
“Reason may win truths; without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat.”
“Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.”
Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason
“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.”
“Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.”
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
“Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.”
Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition
“Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.”
“Reason never leads a man into repentance.”
“Reason never leads a man to repent.”
“Reason never wholly overcomes imagination, while the contrary is quite common.”
Source: Pensées
“Reason, not faith. Good deeds, not faith. Knowledge, not faith. In these signs we shall triumph.”
Source: Evangelical Protestants: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
“Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.”
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans," I say.
"Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.”
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.”
Source: On The Gods and Other Essays
“Reason off.
Heart on.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.”
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Reason --open-minded and self-critical-- remains the key to our species' tremendous success.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.”
“Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Reason requires that I approve
The light-bulb which I cannot love”
“Reason restrains.”
“Reason restrains. But imagination evolve.”
“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
Source: The Prophet
“Reason said the Buick up ahead had made it fine.
Caution said this was a time to reflect on mortal life.
One major funeral a day was quite enough.
The best way to view these events was standing up.”
Source: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection
“Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.”
Source: Religio laici, or A laymans faith, a poem
“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”