Quotes About Reason

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And, yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neidier, though by your smiling, you seem to say so.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Reason is also choice.

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.