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Reason

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

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Warburton, William

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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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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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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Karl Marx

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

Wesley, John

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sophocles

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

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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 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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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Addison, Joseph

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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