Reason Alone Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them…
— Adolf Hitler
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
— Saint Augustine
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A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless…
— John Loengard
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
— James Madison
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The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to…
— James Madison
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room,…
— Halle Berry
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
— William of Ockham
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In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.
— Peter Kreeft
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Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . .…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
— Robert Gordis
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of…
— Robert Hooke
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Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of…
— Russell Kirk
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Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
— Rene Descartes
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Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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