Bertrand Russell Quotes on Reason
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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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In fact the opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.