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Pronunciation: [ˈe͡ɪd͡ʒ ɒv ɹˈiːzən] (IPA)

The phrase "Age of Reason" refers to a period marked by intellectual growth and development, characterized by the prominence of rational thinking, logical discourse, and empirical observation. Other synonyms for this period include the Enlightenment, the Rationalist Movement, the Age of Enlightenment, the Enlightenment Era, or the Century of Lights. The Age of Reason was a time of great emphasis on individual rights and freedoms, social and economic progress, and scientific discovery. The philosophers of this time, such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, challenged traditional authority and encouraged critical thinking and independence. The legacy of the Age of Reason resonates to this day in modern scientific inquiry, human rights, and democracy.

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Famous quotes with Age of reason

  • The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom
  • When you reached the age of reason, I secured you from the influence of human prejudice; when your heart awoke I preserved you from the sway of passion. Had I been able to prolong this inner tranquillity till your life's end, my work would have been secure, and you would have been as happy as man can be; but, my dear Emile, in vain did I dip you in the waters of Styx, I could not make you everywhere invulnerable; a fresh enemy has appeared, whom you have not yet learnt to conquer, and from whom I cannot save you. That enemy is yourself. Nature and fortune had left you free. You could face poverty, you could bear bodily pain; the sufferings of the heart were unknown to you; you were then dependent on nothing but your position as a human being; now you depend on all the ties you have formed for yourself; you have learnt to desire, and you are now the slave of your desires. Without any change in yourself, without any insult, any injury to yourself, what sorrows may attack your soul, what pains may you suffer without sickness, how many deaths may you die and yet live! A lie, an error, a suspicion, may plunge you in despair.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
    C. S. Lewis
  • On the supposition that the world is to go on divided among aggressive sovereign states, with phases of war preparation known as peace and acute phases of more and more destructive war, it is quite a good move in the game. On the supposition that the world is growing up to an age of reason, and that a world of civilisation is attainable, it is a monstrous crime.
    H. G. Wells

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