An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Humor is reason gone mad.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Being is the great explainer.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Law is mind without reason.