Browsing Quotes With Tag: reason (10)
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I’d rather spend an hour with a reasonable Christian than spend… any time at all with a vegan atheist.
Speaker: Marc MaronPosted: 08 Jan 2015 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people would rather die than think; many do.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A problem well stated is a problem half solved
Speaker: Charles KetteringPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.
Speaker: Ursula Ke Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy’s own ground… by the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can forsee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences. Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it “real life,” and don’t let him ask what he means by “real.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Speaker: Galileo GalileiPosted: 07 Apr 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Speaker: Galileo GalileiPosted: 21 Mar 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!