Ethan Allen Quotes

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

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.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic is pointless.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

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

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

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

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.