Reason Quotes

“Reason is the technique of choice.”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“Reason is the only torch that can guide our steps.”

“Communicative reason is not a capacity of the isolated subject but a medium of intersubjective relations.”

“To be a naturalist is to be a conspirator with sane reason.”

“The belief of a future state is a dictate of our reason.”

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

“Nothing should be believed unless it is first understood.”

“Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”

“Reason must know the limitations of reason.”

“It is not so important what you believe, but why you believe it.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed.”

“He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”

“Logic is a tool, not a substitute for thought.”

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out.”

“The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the champions of the rational.”

“Man's tool of survival is his mind.”