An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

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

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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

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

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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.

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.

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.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

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.

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

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

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

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

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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.

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

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

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

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

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.

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.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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

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

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.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Law is mind without reason.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

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

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

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

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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

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

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.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

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

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.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

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

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