Algernon Sidney Quotes

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.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

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.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates 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.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

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.

There is nothing higher than reason.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

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

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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