Quotes About Reason

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.

Theism produces sloppy ways of thinking because it doesn't necessarily respect reason but instead favors fiction.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.

Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

They made me think of long-forgotten conflicts and compromises between the imagination and the will, reason and feeling, power and sensuality; together with many more specifically personal sensations, experienced in the past, of pleasure and of pain.

Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good—you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'; man who's afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I've ever seen. So there's nothing to do but forget it, that's all. Seems to me

He's a very handsome man, is the captain, said Jeaneatte. . . You shouldn't think about handsome men, child, said Mrs. Greenow. And I'm sure I don't, said Jeanette. Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.

My dear," said the elder Duke, "I do not think that in my time any innocent man has ever lost his life upon the scaffold." "Is that a reason why our friend should be the first instance?" said the Duchess.

But he was a man who could not make his reason subordinate to his feelings. If the evidence against his friend was strong enough to send his friend for trial, how should he dare to discredit the evidence because the man was his friend?

My father made no such division between faith and reason. He understood that the act of faith does not mean the end of thought.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present [1071b]

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul