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Reason Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color.…
- This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only…
- Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
- He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
- 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…
- If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better…
- Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not…
- I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth,…
- For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the…
- If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have…
- It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is.…
- Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
- The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting…
- The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know.…
- The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
- The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
More Reason Quotes
- 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