Reason Quotes - Page 6

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

Motivation is desire or inspiration.
A motive is a reason. What's your reason?

No one is an outside observer of nature,
We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment - by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human concern. You must do your utmost as individuals to improve your understanding, ability and compassion.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

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.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."

(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

Its as if you think you'd never find
Reason and the Sacred intertwined