Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire

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

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.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sophocles

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 unus'd.

William Shakespeare

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wesley, John

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dryden, John

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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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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 tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond