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"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

"I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'"

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life."

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks."

"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.""

"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks."
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