Quotes About Reason

The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

Fear arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason. —BARUCH SPINOZA (CIRCA 1670)

Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.

Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree- What the Bull? Of course- who else? But a bull can't climb a tree. He can't can he? Since you know so much about it, did you ever see a bull try? No! I never dreamt of such a thing. Well, then, what is the use of your talking that way, then? Because you never saw a thing done, is that any reason why it can't be done?

this is the only ship going east this time of the year, but there's a thousand coming west—what's a fair wind for us is a head wind to them—the Almighty's blowing a fair wind for a thousand vessels, and this tribe wants him to turn it clear around so as to accommodate one—and she a steamship at that! It ain't good sense, it ain't good reason, it ain't good Christianity, it ain't common human charity.

The Vandal known as Myth always slaughters Reason if she falters.

To read actually comes from the Latin reri to calculate, to think which is not only the progenitor of read but of reason as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein to fit. Aside from giving us reason, arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning weapons. It seems that to fit the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.

Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science.