Quotes About Reason

Possibly none at all: it's a fallacy to assume that whatever is is that way for a good Darwinian reason. Just because a desire or practice is widespread or universal doesn't necessarily mean it confers an evolutionary edge.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero.  I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.  I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.

Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

In the serene world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman: on on hand, the man of reason delegates the physician to madness, thereby authorizing a relation only through the abstract universality of disease; on the other, the man of madness communicates with society only by the intermediary of an equally abstract reason which is order, physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.

Modifying one's s own thought and that of others seems to me to be the intellectual's reason for being

Rendir cuentas, didonai logon de la propia vida, no es hacer el relato de esa vida, es mostrar si uno es capaz de poner de manifiesto la existencia de una relación armónica entre el logos, la razón, el discurso razonable del que uno puede valerse, y su manera de vivir.

Cogito: my thinking is distinguished from knowledge, and from the various processes of understanding— memory, imagination, deductive reason, discernment, geometry— that have been externalized, along with synapses and neurons, in the computer.

We need order, certainly, but an order without reason. It is reason that must be changed. The only authentic intellectual act is invention. Our preference should be for the labyrinth of electronic chips.

This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.

Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.

But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Setiap orang bisa membunuh dengan darah panas, tanpa akal sehat. Tapi akal sehat adalah yang diminta sang raja pembunuh. Akal sehat mengatakan kepada Zulaika bahwa ia tidak mungkin berhasil dalam dua serangan melawan laki-laki yang jauh lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari padanya.

Jednak?e m?drzy ludzie w tym w?a?nie celu maj? rozum, ?eby si? nim pos?ugiwa? w podobnie skomplikowanych przypadkach.

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason? Yes