Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Karl Marx

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Wesley, John

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Allen, Woody

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

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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice 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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Connolly, Cyril

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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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

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Plato

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

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

Sophocles

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