Quotes about reason

"I am never upset for the reason I think."

A Course In Miracles on reason
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"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."

Abbagnano, Nicola on reason
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

Allen, Woody on reason
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"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on reason
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"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on reason   

"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."

Aragon, Louis on reason
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"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Aragon, Louis on reason   

"Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."

Bacon, Roger on reason   

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."

Baudelaire, Charles on reason
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"As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right."

Beecher, Catharine Esther on reason   

"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

Bloom, Allan on reason
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"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly."

Boileau, Nicholas on reason
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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."

Bolingbroke, Henry on reason   

"To reason about love is to lose reason."

Boufflers on reason   

"Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision."

Bronte, Charlotte on reason
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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

Butler, Samuel on reason
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"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason."

Carlyle, Thomas on reason
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"People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on reason   

"The more you reason the less you create."

Chandler, Raymond on reason   

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."

Chesterfield, Lord on reason   

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on reason
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"Reason should direct and appetite obey."

Cicero, Marcus T. on reason   

"Let reason govern desire."

Cicero, Marcus T. on reason   

"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."

Cioran, E. M. on reason
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"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."

Connolly, Cyril on reason   

"The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act."

Devoto, Bernard on reason   

"It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

Disraeli, Benjamin on reason   

"No one ever excused his way to success."

Dotto, Dave Del on reason   

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave."

Drummond, William on reason
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"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."

Dryden, John on reason   

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."

Fielding, Henry on reason   

"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."

Fromm, Erich on reason   

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Frost, Robert on reason
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"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."

Froude, James A. on reason   

"Reason can in general do more than blind force."

Gallus, Gaius C. on reason   

"Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason."

Gandhi, Mahatma on reason
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"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on reason   

"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on reason   

"Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on reason