reason Quotes

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.