All Quotes By Tag: Reason

“Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its every feature by the light of reason. The atheist does not boast of knowing in a vainglorious, empty sense. He understands by knowledge the most reasonable and clear and sound position one can take on the basis of all the evidence at hand. This evidence convinces him that theism is not true, and his logical position, then, is that of atheism.We repeat that the atheist is one who denies the assumptions of theism. he asserts, in other words, that he doesn’t believe in a God because he has no good reason for believing in a God. That’s atheism — and that’s good sense.”

“No one can save anyone else from their own beliefs.”

“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”

“Sometimes, hate gives us reason to love, but love never gives us reason to hate.”

“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.”

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies — the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.”

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”

“This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.”

“It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.”

“Δύο υπερβολές : ν’ αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.”

“God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.”

“Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.”

“The Encyclopedia–the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment…”