Quotes about Reason

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.

Martin Luther offers a powerful reminder in our temptation to go at life on our own: The world is insane. It tries to get rid of its insanity by the use of wisdom and reason; and it looks for many ways and means, for all sorts of help and advice on how to escape this distress.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion

Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.