Quotes About Reason

She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.

Rational argument does not always win over old-brain fear, particularly if one spouse tries to educate the other. Yet there is a simple rule of thumb that could have helped that professor: If reason conflicts with a strong emotion, don't try to argue. Enlist a conflicting and stronger emotion. One

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

Il peccato, inventato dagli uomini per meritare la pena di vivere, per non essere castigati senza perché.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the most accursed school that the best way of preventing a young man from curing himself of an amorous passion is to excite it constantly; but you must agree with me that, to put such tyranny in practice, it is necessary to hate the person it is practised upon, and, if that be so, I ought to call upon my reason to give me the strength necessary to hate you likewise.

Death is a monster which drives an attentive spectator from the great theater before the play in which he is infinitely interested is over. This alone is reason enough to hate it.

Reason is the enemy of all greatness: reason is the enemy of nature: nature is great, reason is small. I mean that it will be more or less difficult for a man to be great the more he is governed by reason, that few can be great (and in art and poetry perhaps no one) unless they are governed by illusions.

He lays down as an axiom Dio's dictum that "custom is like a king and law1 like a tyrant; which we must understand as referring to reasonable custom and to law1 not animated by natural reason.

the worrying gap that seems to persist between the spontaneity of reason and the passivity of sensibility can be overcome if one no longer thinks of nature exclusively in the deterministic terms of modern scientism;

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

For the reason, or maxim, is inevitably a proposition of some generality. It cannot embody specifications to fit every detail of the particular state of affairs.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Sólo sabe vincular aquél que penetra la razón de todo; o al menos la naturaleza, disposición, inclinación, actitud, utilidad y objetivo de aquella realidad particular que debe vincularse.

So we are led back to the neutral ground on which Parmenides had placed himself, a ground where reason and truth about nature were one and the same.

La ortodoxia de la razón idiotiza a la humanidad mucho más que cualquier religión. Karl Kraus

it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .

He'd seen her not really recognising him, not really, when it came down to it, caring who he was. It was disgusting, that pain could do that. What was the point of it, except to shame and disgust everyone? To make a mockery of love? If that was God then fuck God, whether there was a reason for it or not. If there was a reason then fuck the reason. No kind of reason he was interested in any more.

It's frequently said that there is 'no reason' for such 'military-style weapons' as the Bushmaster to be available to citizens. But isn't that a lot like saying there is no reason why any civilian should drive a military-style car like the Hummer?

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!