Reason - Quotes
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.
The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason - if you pick the proper postulates.
Whatever is born into this world, no matter how, and for whatever reason, is born to die.
- A question, before you go. What is the truth?
- We place faith in ourselves. We see the world the way it really is and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.
- What is the world, then?
- An illusion. One of which can either submit to - like most do - or transcend.
- What is it to transcend?
- To recognize nothing is true and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning. [...] And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning.
Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains - because they’re there.
As you get older, I think you'll find that the real reason we have birthday celebrations is not because it's important to the birthday girl/boy, but that it's important to people who care about them.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.