Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baudelaire, Charles

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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.

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

Voltaire

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Karl Marx

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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 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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Dryden, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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 noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Warburton, William

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Aragon, Louis

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Abbagnano, Nicola