reason Quotes

“But when erring reason proposes something as being commanded by God, then to scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“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.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some errour in reasoning, or some sudden force of the passions.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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