His Reason Quotes
72 quotes by 57 authors
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad,…
— Samuel Beckett
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same…
— Denis Diderot
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Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
— Erich Fromm
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In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the…
— Thomas Paine
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
— Robert Browning
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
— Laurence Sterne
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his…
— Murray Rothbard
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
— James Madison
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To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is…
— William Crookes
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The more man distinguishes himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as the subject, as an "I" to whom…
— Emil Brunner
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Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder…
— Ben Jonson
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I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
— Plato
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
— Thomas Jefferson
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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