A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.