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“God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.”

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Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.”

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Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.”

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Author:Frances Wright

“Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.”

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Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood