Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

11.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

12.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wesley, John

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

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

Hegel, Georg

25.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bacon, Roger

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

White, William Allen

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Warburton, William

42.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

45.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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.

49.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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