Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the...

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak of having a great, noble, craven, daring, or debased soul, but to come right out with...

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence...

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals

The reason they scored so much was because our offense was so horrific. We’re better than.

[…] the less you know, the less you will be aware of your ignorance. The familiar metaphor is that the wider the circle of our knowledge, the greater its contact with the unknown, and the...

What reason and endeavor cannot bring about, often time will

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under...

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs… In fact, the Athanasian paradox that...

This is a move we are making to assure our fan base that we are here for one reason. It’s also a message for our players, that even though it’s very tight in the restrictive...

Maybe it’s not finding a reason, it’s trusting that there is one.

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can’t leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can’t allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like...

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there’s a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you couldn’t be right and He wrong any...

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents...

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can...

There’s sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren’t being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly

I love you” is because those three words represent 10% of the average man’s vocabulary.

The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities—that theory to which the most glorious objects of human...

If you think it’s bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!’ He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. ‘Do try to remember we’re visitors-and not welcome ones-if you...

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand,...

I try to travel as much as I can… I’m always looking for a reason to.

Thou shalt not steal.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters;...

I’m small, I’m young – and I’m so different. You’ve always respected that difference, and you’ve always trusted it. Trust me now. There’s a reason I am the way I am, and there’s a reason...

Religion doesn’t just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves– to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes...

Helen stared at him “How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?””You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic” He smailed at her

Reason, you’ll always be half-blind.

But dogmatism–or the inclination ‘to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking’–is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve...

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are...

Nobody has been willing to stick their neck out about when we’ll see a tech recovery and there’s no reason to think that Microsoft, with its conservative bias, would be any different.

Mentally, we just didn’t get it done for whatever reason. Stuff went our way a couple times in the Cardinals series, and this time we didn’t put ourselves in a position to have things go...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Physics is nothing but the ABC’s. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.