Quotes about Reason
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
— Marcus Aurelius
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
— Martin Luther
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
— Stephen Colbert
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
— Thomas a Kempis
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
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
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