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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

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.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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.