The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one. — Tim Robbins 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 goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“One cannot be given too many or too frequent warnings against this negligent or even base way of thinking, that seeks out… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They… — William James Copy Share Image
“We have one mind, and it contains both thought and feeling. Passion and reason combine as one in our mind. Only when… — Richard S. Lazarus 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
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“discussions about the authority of the gospel the word “reason” is often used as though it were an independent source of information… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Divine revelation is perfect and, therefore, it is not subject to continual and indefinite progress of human reason.” — Anonymous 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
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
