Human Reason

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or reason:

“Dreading that climax of all human ills
The inflammation of his weekly bills.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Modern equalitarian societies ... whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier.... Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue—in a sense, the only political issue—and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)