Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

6.

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

Aragon, Louis

7.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

Proverb, Welsh

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Bacon, Roger

14.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Dryden, John

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

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

Devoto, Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

Warburton, William

27.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

28.

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

29.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

30.

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

Richard, Little

31.

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

32.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

34.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Sterne, Laurence

37.

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

Hegel, Georg

38.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Karl Marx

41.

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

Bloom, Allan

42.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

43.

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

44.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

49.

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

Cioran, E. M.

50.

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.