Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Eastwood, Clint

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Wesley, John

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

Richard, Little

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

White, William Allen

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Devoto, Bernard

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Aquinas, St. 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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Karl Marx

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Sophocles

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

43.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hegel, Georg

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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.