Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Abbagnano, Nicola

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Wilde, Oscar

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

Aragon, Louis

10.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

William Shakespeare

11.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Warburton, William

12.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

13.

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

14.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Richard, Little

15.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Hazlitt, William

16.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

17.

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Baum, Lyman Frank

18.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

19.

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

21.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Wesley, John

22.

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

Devoto, Bernard

23.

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

Cioran, E. M.

24.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx

27.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

28.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

29.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Aragon, Louis

30.

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

Bacon, Roger

31.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

32.

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

Hegel, Georg

33.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

37.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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.

40.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

41.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

42.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

44.

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

45.

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

46.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

47.

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

48.

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

50.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del