Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Cioran, E. M.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

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

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.

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.

Shakespeare, William

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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Havel, Vaclav

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

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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

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

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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Karl Marx

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

Butler, Samuel

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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Proverb, Welsh

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.

O'Brian, John Lord

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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

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

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

Allen, Woody

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We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Parker, Theodore

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.

William Shakespeare