His Reason Quotes

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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
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. — Robert Browning
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
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude… — Jacob Bronowski
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson
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
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and… — Plato
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world -… — Leo Strauss
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period… — Edward Hallett Carr
Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect… — Gherman Titov

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