112 quotes found
“It's against reason," said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.”
“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ab...”
“We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!”
“Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!”
“In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct...”
“You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.”
“Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to ...”
“Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”
“Why do people kill themselves?I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no l...”
“The sum is this, As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces in meditation; and more especially in meditating on the joys of heaven, To this end, set apart on...”
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.”
“If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
“Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”
“Faith is a continuation of reason.”
“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.”
“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”
