Quotes About Reason

This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

Reason is no match for passion.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, not to lead people by reason, but to restrain them by fear in such a way that they flee what is bad rather than love the virtues, simply intend all other people to be as miserable as they are, and so it is not surprising that they are for the most part irksome and hateful to human beings.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive not to guide men by reason, but so to restrain them that they would rather escape evil than love virtue, have no other aim but to make others as wretched as themselves. Wherefore it is nothing wonderful, if they be generally troublesome and odious to their fellow man.

The] right of the individual is co-extensive with its determinate power. ... Nature's bounds are not set by the laws of human reason which aim only at man's true interest and his preservation ... man is but a particle.

seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.

For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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