Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Karl Marx

Best Quotes about 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

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

Warburton, William

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Devoto, Bernard

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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Karl Marx

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Frost, Robert

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

Sophocles

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hegel, Georg

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

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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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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

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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

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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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 harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand