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  • Why is there something rather than nothing?

  • The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

  • Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  • Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

    Faith   Hands   Soul  
    John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

    Men   Religion   Reason  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.360
  • Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

    Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.164
  • Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  • We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

    Two   Religion   Wish  
    Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”
  • It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

    Zero   Reason   Scientist  
    "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.
  • For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

    Bible   Faith   Dream  
    God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)
  • Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

    Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”
  • Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

    Religious   Humor   Sight  
  • Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

    Shoes   Feet   Reason  
    "Fictional character: Brother Alwyn Macomber". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.
  • Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

    Truth   Wings   Two  
  • It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

    Faith   Atheist   Believe  
    Following the Equator ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

  • The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

    Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.52
  • Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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

    Men   Catholic   Reason  
    Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”
  • In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

    Believe   Dark   Biblical  
    J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press
  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

    Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.
  • Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

    "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.
  • Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

    'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'
  • Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

    Trust   Faith   Believe  
  • The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

    Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

    "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.
  • Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

    Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.138, Library of America
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