Quotes about Reason
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
- St. John Chrysostom
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
- Livy
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
- Cicero
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
- John Milton
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- GK Chesterton
Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
- Ayn Rand
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
- John Donne
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
- Ayn Rand
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Thomas Jefferson
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
- James Faust