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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. -- Allan Bloom
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This then is the age of reason. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
It's the age of reason for the anarchist. -- Bob Seger
Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason -- George Carlin
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. -- Umberto Eco
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage. -- Edward Gibbon
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. -- Christopher Hitchens
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally. -- John Rawls
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. -- Sri Aurobindo
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe. -- Frances E. Willard
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. -- John Maynard Keynes
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising. -- Adolf Hitler
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. -- Anthony Burgess
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone. -- Thomas Paine
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason -- Thomas Paine
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world. -- Hans Rookmaaker
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. -- Marion Woodman
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well. -- Steve King
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. -- John Maynard Keynes
The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason. -- Gregory Maguire
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. -- Richard Dawkins
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. -- Drew Barrymore
I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before. -- Peter Dinklage
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. -- Ronald Blythe
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. -- Lindsay Lohan
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. -- Madonna Ciccone
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. -- John Jay Chapman
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. -- Amy Lowell
The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age. -- Rory Kinnear
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. -- Gene Fowler
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. -- Gary L. Francione
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age. -- Joshua Bell
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason. -- Gregory Maguire
He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason. -- John McPhee
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. -- Saint Basil
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. -- John Dryden
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. -- George Eliot
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour. -- Cecelia Ahern
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. -- Gordon Stein
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. -- Melanie Benjamin
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence. -- Primo Levi
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. -- Nina Bawden
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five. -- Joel Henry Hildebrand
I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun. -- Greg van Eekhout
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books. -- David McCullough

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