Top 1200 Human Reason Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.