Quotes About Reason

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.