Sentence examples for light of reason from inspiring English sources

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For him, the Enlightenment, with its sensistic, subjectivist attitude and devotion to the act of reasoning, rather than to the light of reason, degenerates inevitably into a hotchpotch of negation and ignorance, leading to radical corruption in ethics, and every other branch of philosophical endeavour.

Morozov longs for the sacred light of reason to shine into the web's dark corners.

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

He believed that everyone could tell true from false by the natural light of reason.

Concepts of justification and excuse applicable under this section may be developed in the light of reason and experience.

"Evil" operates in the shadows rather than in those places which are filled with the light of reason.

There is something unfathomable about evil: it appears to be a deep, impenetrable darkness that resists the light of reason.

Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.

Take Descartes: he was notable for "his faith in his own unusually bright light of reason", but "perhaps he did not have all the answers".

It is not untrue to assert that Britain's innovations and global reach spread the light of reason to the remotest corners of the Earth.

Periwigged men in Paris salons, Tocqueville once lamented, were "almost totally removed from practical life" and worked "by the light of reason alone".

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