Quotes about Reason

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.

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.

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.

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..'.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

The Deist, therefore, who looks for Life and Salvation through the Use of his Reason, acts contrary to the whole Nature of every Thing that he sees and knows of himself and of the Nature and State of this World.

To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.