Quotes About Reason

Edmund Burke: "When things go wrong we are always tempted to ask not how we got into this difficulty, but how we are to get out of it . . . to consult our invention and to reject our experience." Yet, Burke concluded, such thinking is "diametrically opposed to every rule of reason, and every good principle of good sense.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Je mehr man in einer Sprache durch Vernunft unterscheiden lernt, desto schwerer wird einem das Sprechen derselben. Im Fertig-Sprechen ist viel Instinktmäßiges, durch Vernunft läßt es sich nicht erreichen.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

His heart runs away with his head.

Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of knowledge are either unreal or unimportant. The computer treats reason as an instrument for achieving things, not for contemplating things. It narrows dramatically what we know and intended by reason.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.

Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason.

Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate.

wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins." I really liked that quote. It explained why, even though I was reasonably intelligent, I kept finding myself doing something really stupid.

A wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.