Quotes About Reason

You cannot reason with delusion.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

There is no reason not to be happy at Chelsea.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Law is mind without reason.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.