reason Quotes

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.