Quotes About Reason

There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding. But without your curiosity and questions, there is no path, no journey to be taken, even if you adopt all the forms of the tradition.

Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.

A story tells us what happened, but a plot tells us why

As an instance of an intended act, Napoleon emancipated the Jews; as an instance of an unintended act which manifested the "cunning of reason," Napoleon created German nationalism by the very act of abolishing the Holy Roman Empire.

Reason governs the world. World history "is therefore a rational process" (Hegel, Lectures). The German word for reason is Vernunft.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

For what [Aristotle] had done was to gather together all the knowledge of his time. He wrote about the natural sciences – the stars, animals and plants; about history and people living together in a state – what we call politics; about the right way to reason – logic; and the right way to behave – ethics.

In the two hundred years that followed the Enlightenment, more mysteries of nature were studied and explained than in the preceding two thousand years. But what you must never forget is the importance for our own lives of tolerance, reason and humanity – the three fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

It was nothing to him that Nature had caught up this dropped stitch in order to continue her pattern. While he had love he had kept reason.

Nothing enrages Anglo-India more than the lantern of reason if it is exhibited for one moment after its extinction is decreed. All over Chandrapore that day the Europeans were putting aside their normal personalities and sinking themselves in their community. Pity, wrath, heroism, filled them, but the power of putting two and two together was annihilated.

Passion is sanity.

antagonists in Rand's novels do not live by reason ... mediocrities who cannot think for themselves and conformists who cannot be bothered to.