Martin Luther Quotes

I possess a strong sense of reason.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

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

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.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

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.

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.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

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

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

This then is the age of reason.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.