Sentence examples for abandon reason from inspiring English sources

Of enthusiasts, those who would abandon reason and claim to know on the basis of faith alone, Locke writes: "…he that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation, puts out the Light of both, and does much what the same, as if he would perswade a Man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote Light of an invisible Star by a Telescope".

And those of the south, blinded by the excess of colour, abandon reason and produce monsters".

Meanwhile, in his own life, Conan Doyle seemed to abandon reason altogether.

Whenever we abandon reason and balk at the advance of knowledge, reaction and chaos ensue.

But all it takes to abandon reason is a brief drive a couple of miles toward Grozny, to Mukharbek Hashtyrov's abandoned pig farm.

When I joined the Episcopal Church as an adult, I was told that my faith in God and trust in the church did not require me to abandon reason and intelligence.

Demanding "straight talk," Mr. McCain accused conservatives of abandoning reason by opposing the House Republican leader's plan to resolve the debt crisis.

With one exception: a character who has bought peace and fulfillment by abandoning reason and living entirely in illusion.

In this corporatized system, we can't expect many leaders to heed Revolutionary pamphleteer (and ur-blogger) Thomas Paine, who said "Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead".

The biggest obstacles to peace in our time include not just power hungry leaders intent on conquest but world citizens paralyzed into inaction when faced with the magnitude of our problems and a sizable minority of the American population that has abandoned reason and logic for absolutes that end dialogue and crumble the common good.

Goya's imagination, without abandoning reason, harnessed the supernatural into a troubling display of the unconscious and the irrational.