Pure Reason Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

• The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
• Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — H. L. Mencken
• Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate — Rudolf Hess
• Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it… — Paul Cezanne
• In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. — Charles Alexander Eastman
• There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species,… — Al Capp
• But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. — Immanuel Kant
• Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of… — Russell Kirk
• Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
• Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. — Robert Musil
• You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose… — Norton Juster
• To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
• If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. — Werner Heisenberg

Who Wrote These Pure Reason Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Pure Reason Quotes as follows:

• 2 Pure Reason Quotes by Immanuel Kant
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Rudolf Hess
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Paul Cezanne
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Charles Alexander Eastman
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Al Capp
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Russell Kirk
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Nicholas Murray Butler
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Robert Musil
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Norton Juster
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Angela Carter
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Pure Reason Quote by Werner Heisenberg