Motivational Quotes

Reason

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

- Morrison, Toni

Best Quotes about Reason

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.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Richard, Little

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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Wesley, John