Limits Of Reason Quotes

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

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

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.

Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.