Human Reason Quotes

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Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light… — George Santayana
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is… — Paracelsus
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of… — Elisabeth Elliot
Human reason is by nature architectonic. — Immanuel Kant
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature… — Immanuel Kant
As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to… — Ambrose Bierce
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad… — Edmund Burke
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
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
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
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority… — Thomas Aquinas
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. — Vladimir Lenin
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,… — Frances Wright
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. — Maimonides
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which… — Baron de Montesquieu
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought… — Baron de Montesquieu
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness… — Adam Weishaupt

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