Quotes about Reason

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

There's a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It's important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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.

In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by long involuntary fasting, violent exercise in pursuit of game, and over-eating. Instinct more than reason had taught them a remedy for these ills. It was the steam bath.

Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

A priest and a philosopher are two different things

Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.