Quotes About Reason

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I love my fans, I love my music - I have no reason to retire.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write.

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

You can only argue with reasonable people.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

What did Sept. 11 do? It took me from 60-70 percent name recognition as mayor of New York to about 90 percent. Of course it had an impact. But it's not the only reason I was successful.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.