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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. -- Thomas Mann
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. -- John Chrysostom
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. -- Maimonides
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. -- Adam Weishaupt
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial. -- Levi Woodbury
They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. -- Tom Hanks
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. -- Jacques Barzun
Human reason can excuse any evil. -- Veronica Roth
Human reason is by nature architectonic. -- Immanuel Kant
Reason is the most active human faculty. -- Mary Baker Eddy
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. -- Jostein Gaarder
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. -- Thomas Aquinas
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. -- Samuel Johnson
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. -- Heinrich Mann
Human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change. -- Bernie Sanders
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All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. -- Michael Crichton
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. -- Allan Kardec
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. -- Alexander Pope
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star. -- W. H. Auden
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. -- Thomas Mann
The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason. -- Henry Norman Hudson
God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down. -- Kedar Joshi
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. -- Khalil Gibran
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. -- Glenn Beck
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. -- Mark Rothko
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. -- Aristotle
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human. -- Kim Deal
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts -- Saint John Chrysostom
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together. -- Jean Baudrillard
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. -- Ashley Montagu
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. -- Milan Kundera
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. -- Aldous Huxley
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories. -- Jonathan Nolan
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle
The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason. -- John Haynes Holmes
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. -- Veronica Roth
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. -- Christina Stead
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. -- Ferdinand Buisson
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. -- Leo Tolstoy
The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche. -- Jesse Plemons
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire -- Aristotle
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. -- William Blake
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. -- Virginia Postrel
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. -- Blaise Pascal
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it. -- Martin Luther
Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness. -- Roger Ebert
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. -- Craig Venter
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. -- David Mitchell
He was my reason for existence,Descended from my cherished dreamInto my human dull subsistence,An angel, sacred and supreme! -- Tatyana K. Varenko
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. -- Jodi Picoult
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. -- Blaise Pascal
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty." -- Herman Melville
Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. -- Baroness Orczy
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it. -- Eden Phillpotts
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the comtemplative reason, and the desire for aestetic perfection. -- Richard Courant
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. -- Isaac Asimov
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. -- Albert Camus
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. -- Immanuel Kant
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. -- Barack Obama
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. -- Leo Tolstoy
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. -- Vladimir Lenin
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings. -- Alexandra Cassavetes
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. -- Ernest Hemingway
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other -- Martin Luther
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. -- George Boole
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. -- Wilfrid
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. -- Isaac Barrow
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable. -- James Monroe
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. -- Jostein Gaarder
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. -- Wilfrid
The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself. -- Michael J. McCarthy
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion. -- Mardy Grothe
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. -- Thomas Jefferson
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. -- Chester Bowles
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity. -- David Hume
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. -- John Quincy Adams
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. -- Richard Le Gallienne
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage -- W. Somerset Maugham
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone. -- Gioconda Belli
Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate. -- Ann Demeulemeester
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity. -- Edward de Bono
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. -- Steve Wynn
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble. -- Swami Vivekananda
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. -- Erich Fromm
Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us. -- Margaret Atwood
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. -- Maria Montessori
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. -- Robert Byron
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions. -- Greg Graffin
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world. -- Isaac Watts
If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. -- Victoria Gray Adams
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. -- Vanna Bonta
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth. -- Nancy Pearcey
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? -- Christina Baker Kline

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