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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.