Atheist Quote by Josh Charles

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

— Jonathan Schell

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

— Henri Bergson

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;…

— Immanuel Kant

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

— Mercy Otis Warren

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can…

— Meg Rosoff

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu

The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the…

— Hans von Storch

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

— John Calvin

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be…

— Immanuel Kant

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Being creatures means that we cannot re-create ourselves in any fashion or form that we desire by a simple act of the will or…

— Andrew T. Walker