Quotes About Reason

No one subsists, without ambition; nothing exists, without reason.

The reason is that there is no reason The issue is that there is no issue

Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction. . . .

Will pain not be conquered by reason, when it is defeated by a smile?

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Maybe, I thought, I've given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

What happened, in other words, in the world of adults, in the heads of very reasonable people, in their bodies loaded with knowledge? What reduced them to the most untrustworthy animals, worse than reptiles?

reason, by a weariness that made everything around

Of course, you couldn't have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

The trouble with this, in MacIntyre's opinion, was that all the insistence on the primacy of reason and of "rational debate" had ever achieved was to have erased from men's minds what, since Aristotle, had been the main support for their entire moral, intellectual, and political lives: the concept of virtue. And it had given them nothing in return. Their intellectual "light" was, in fact, nothing other than moral darkness.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

A nadie le vino la cordura antes que la insensatez. LUCIO ANNEO SÉNECA

La objetividad será aquello que la razón discierne como naturaleza del mundo, cuyas figuras sucesivas son por eso mismo fenómenos o expresiones de un fundamento.

PARÁBOLAS VII Dice la razón: Busquemos la verdad. Y el corazón: Vanidad. La verdad ya la tenemos. La razón: ¡Ay, quién alcanza la verdad! El corazón: Vanidad. La verdad es la esperanza. Dice la razón: Tú mientes. Y contesta el corazón: Quien miente eres tú, razón. que dices lo que no sientes. La razón: Jamás podremos entendernos, corazón. El corazón: Lo veremos.

A volte una soluzione sembra plausibile solo in questo modo: sognando. Forse perché la ragione è pavida, non riesce a riempire i vuoti fra le cose, a stabilire la completezza, che è una forma di semplicità, preferisce una complicazione piena di buchi, e allora la volontà affida la soluzione al sogno.

A person who is truly positive will not merely advise others to stay away from the negative people ,but will also back-up own point with a solid action/reason somewhere as why s/he calls someone a toxic.

Anyone can give advice to the people to never lose hope but a wise will only suffice with a solid reason and foolproof example as why a person should not lose hope

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.