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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the read more
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt read more
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.