Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

Happily I had very early learned the fallacy of building much on logic and verbal argument. Single sets of truths I knew to be as little conclusive in theology as in physics; and, in one as in the other, no theory to be worth anything, however plausibly backed up with Scripture texts or facts, which was not gathered bona fide from the analysis of all the attainable phenomena, and verified wherever possible by experiment.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

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

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.