reason Quotes

“No longer did he feel shame for his hairless body or his human features, for now his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is matter of faith, and above reason.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“Under the guidance of reason we should pursue the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Now 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.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“reason is the greatest enemy that faith has”

― Martin Luther, Table Talk

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“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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