Reason Quotes

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.