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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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Best Quotes about Reason

1.
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

2.
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

3.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire

4.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Browne, Sir Thomas

5.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Lowell, James Russell

6.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire

7.
I am never upset for the reason I think.
A Course In Miracles

8.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Warburton, William

9.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Hazlitt, William

10.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

11.
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

12.
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.

13.
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.

14.
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Connolly, Cyril

15.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Russell, Bertrand

16.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

19.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

20.
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.
Let reason govern desire.
Cicero, Marcus T.

23.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Richard, Little

24.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Bloom, Allan

25.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid

26.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Hill, Aaron

28.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Shaw, George Bernard

29.
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

30.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
White, William Allen

31.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Jerrold, Douglas William

32.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
Morgan, John Pierpont

33.
The more you reason the less you create.
Chandler, Raymond

34.
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

35.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Butler, Samuel

36.
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

37.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Wesley, John

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Everyone has his reasons.
Renoir, Jean

42.
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.

43.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Abbagnano, Nicola

44.
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

45.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Swift, Jonathan

46.
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Boileau, Nicholas

47.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Hamilton, Alexander

48.
Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Sterne, Laurence

49.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Devoto, Bernard

50.
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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