reason

The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has been given to its interests is not one which assists us in comprehending the larger process of which as individuals we form merely a part or in appreciating how we constantly contribute to a common effort without either directing it or submitting to orders of others.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.

If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do with the month of May with three letters before you open the door of the month of June with four letters. Which is the break time for the entire twelve months of the year. Until you clearly understand how you are spending the year, you shall finish spending it and ponder over how you spent it, year after year! No one is absolutely free from excuses and the challenges of life. You just have to do something great with each day in the year!

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored?

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Be in something for a reason for seasons weather.

The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could hardly be seen as victories for Christ. They are stories in which the final pain of a fatal disease, or the fear of imminent death and eternal punishment, is identified as the factor necessary for otherwise rational people to believe in the supernatural.If mental torture is required to effect a conversion, what does that say about the reliability of the fundamental premises of Christianity to begin with? Evangelicals would be better advised to concentrate on converting the living. Converting the deceased suggests only that they can't convince those who can argue back. They should let the dead rest in peace.

If you think the reason you exist or go to school is just to satisfy your selfish ambitions, then you are of all men most miserable

If they want to you out... they will find always a reason for that.

He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.

But all remains unchanged.

Reason is not always reasonable