reason Quotes

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.