“If we find the answer to that (why the universe exists), it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason. For then… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant 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
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
“All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is… — Walter Bagehot 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
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — Stephen Hawking 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
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally… — George Boole Copy Share Image
If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
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
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume 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
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
“No One Loves Because He Sees Why Where a man does not love, the not-loving must seem rational. For no one loves… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only… — Basilea Schlink Copy Share Image
