Quotes About Reason

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason

For in the country, farm or town, you always know. No one's just there. There's always a source, a why and wherefore.

It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life—sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself—presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo!

Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Love is the reason you were born.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you