Motivational Quotes

Reason

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.

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Richard, Little

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Allen, Woody

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Karl Marx

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Voltaire

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Dryden, John

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Warburton, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard