Quotes About Reason

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

They found all the pot at the crime scene, so the sale had gone through. There's no reason for anyone to get killed over a little bit of pot that no one even bothered to take.

There's really only one reason you'd all be so specific and all tell that same story over and over in the same way. It's because it wasn't true.

In concreto, il mondo colorato, rumoroso e soprattutto fasullo che ci sta intorno, è l'erede del sogno romantico di una rinascita del mito, del fatto che la ragione deve essere sostituita dal sogno. Piuttosto che razionalista, come spesso la si dipinge, la modernità, almeno dal romanticismo in avanti, è stata in buona parte mitologica e anti-illuminista, e l'esito del postmoderno si pone, in piena coerenza, in questa linea di sviluppo.

It occurs to me that boredom and panic are the two devils the solitary must combat. When I lay down this afternoon, I could not rest and finally got up because I was in a sweat of panic, panic for no definable reason, a panic of solitude, I presume.

I need an alibi.

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Astoundingly, truth, evidence and reason had become right-wing concepts.

The answer doesn't come, but the power of being emotionally stuck is far greater than the power of reason."2