Quotes about Reason

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: Though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.