Reason Quotes

“Reason is the technique of choice.”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“To be a naturalist is to be a conspirator with sane reason.”

“He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“For every why he had a wherefore.”

“The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed.”

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“Nothing should be believed unless it is first understood.”

“The real social function of science is to show up the foolishness of force and the necessity of reason in the conduct of human affairs.”

“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem.”

“Love reason then. Let all your works be based on reason.”

“Logic is a tool, not a substitute for thought.”

“In ethics, you can't just have a gut feeling. You have to be able to reason and argue your position.”

“The will is the living principle of reason.”

“In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.”

“Faith established upon equal basis of evidence and investigation is an intellectual assent, a conviction.”

“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

“Communicative reason is not a capacity of the isolated subject but a medium of intersubjective relations.”