Reason Quotes
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.