Quotes About Reason

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason? Yes, yes, of course, that, too. But that - that's only a general thought. There's something else. What is it? An insult, that's what. Yes, yes, insulting words hurled right in his face by Homeless. And the trouble is not that they were insulting, but that there was truth in them.

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

I have an innate passion for contradiction—my whole life has been nothing but a series of melancholy and vain contradictions of heart or reason.

And how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!...

how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!...

B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

Lorsque le cÅ"ur a parlé, il n'estpas convenable que la raison élève des objections. Au royaume du Kitsch s'exerce la dictature du cÅ"ur.

Allí donde habla el corazón es de mala educación que la razón lo contradiga

Yürek konuÅŸtuÄŸunda, ak?l kar?? koymay? yak???ks?z bulur.

You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost!

The dispute between those who believe that the world was created by God and those who think it came into being of its own accord deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation.

Bilo je uzaludno razumom napadati ?vrste bedeme iracionalnih osje?aja od kojih je, kažu, umiješana ženska duša. Naš je razgovor od samog po?etka dobio loš predznak.

Quando parla il cuore non sta bene che la ragione trovi da obiettare.

Sólo una razón nada razonable puede conducir a un horror tan irracional.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

Certainty and similar states of 'knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.