Quotes About Reason

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.