Human reason Quote by Nancy Pearcey

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart…

— Abhijit Naskar

When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the…

— Nancy Pearcey

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

— Nancy Pearcey

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

— Nancy Pearcey

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree…

— Edmund Burke

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and…

— Albert Camus

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

— Thomas Jefferson

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton