An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

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

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Being is the great explainer.

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.‘

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

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.

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

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.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

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

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

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

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

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

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.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

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

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I call him free who is led solely by 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.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

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.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

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

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

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.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.