Reason Quotes

"Common sense will tell us that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us" "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines" "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead" "Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" "Time heals what reason cannot " "Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and emotional experience" "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise" "Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence" "Errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth"