#reason

True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#life #reason #true #under #virtue

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#reason #science #skeptic #science

Faith is a continuation of reason. ↗

— William Adams

#faith #reason

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#age #economical #guy #keeps #lights

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cheap #i #mind #myself #show

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#gotta #important #important thing #life #money

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#put #reasons #up #world

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #equality #experience #freedom #gender

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#despair #left #leftism #leftists #reason

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #empathy #immorality #morality #reason