Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

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Best Quotes about Reason

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

Karl Marx

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Allen, Woody

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 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

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

Warburton, William

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Frost, Robert

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

Richard, Little

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Sophocles

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aragon, Louis

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