Quotes About Reason

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Here I am, with my book and my pencil - the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!

Gracias a Dios soy yo un ser que reacciona orgánicamente por encima de la razón! (...) Aprovéchense, mis buenos amigos, se lo ruego, de este ejemplo. Se evitarán así muchas molestias enojosas. Cultiven la supremacía de los sentimientos sobre la razón y verán entonces cómo le cortan las garras a todo ser cuerdo que intente arañarlos, por el propio bien de ustedes.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our past.

passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.

The first form of culture is agriculture. It is when man settles down to till the soil and lay up provisions for the uncertain future that he finds time and reason to be civilized.

Reason is man's imitation of divinity.

Education does not make a man good; it only makes him clever—usually for mischief. Instinct and feeling are more trustworthy than reason.

Law is necessary because men are subject to passions; if all men were reasonable, law would be superfluous.

The fickle disposition of the multitude almost reduces those who have experience of it to despair; for it is governed solely by emotions, and not by reason.