Quotes About Reason

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.