Andrew Bernstein Quotes

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

He that cannot reason is a fool.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.