Quotes about Reason

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

of all things, the greatest, and most important, and most all-embracing, is this society in which human beings and God are associated together. From this are derived the generative forces to which not only my father and grandfather owe their origin, but also all beings that are born and grow on the earth, and especially rational beings, [5] since they alone are fitted by nature to enter into communion with the divine, being bound to God through reason.