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Reason Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a…
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents…
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
- To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
- There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.
- Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in…
- There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
- There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due…
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will…
- The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for…
- It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in…
- As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one…
- I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
- The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough