Quotes About Reason

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

I think, therefore I'll think.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy.