Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image