Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Hegel, Georg

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richard, Little

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

Allen, Woody

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Aragon, Louis

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Wesley, John

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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 is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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 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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas