Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of…

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart…

— Abhijit Naskar

When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the…

— Nancy Pearcey

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

— Nancy Pearcey

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

— Nancy Pearcey

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree…

— Edmund Burke

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and…

— Albert Camus

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

— Thomas Jefferson

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Human reason can excuse any evil.

— Veronica Roth

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

— Murray Rothbard