Quotes About Reason

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.