Richard Bach Quotes

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

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.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.