Quotes About Reason

If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.

Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his titles, in a place From whence himself does fly? He loves us not. He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight,             Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. All is the fear and nothing is the love, As little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part.

the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days;

Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.

But since the affairs of men rest still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.

we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.

his disease, whatever it was, resided in shadier corners of his soul—where decisions were reached not through reason but by rationalization, and where a thin membranous growth of selfishness always seemed to prevent his decent motives from becoming happy actions.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority

Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait pas.' It

Tuve yo razón. Pero la razón no da fruto. Y estas son mis vestimentas chamuscadas por el fuego. Y estos son mis trebejos de vidente. Y este es mi rostro desfigurado. Un rostro que pudo ser hermoso y no lo supo.

The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.

As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.

Para acabar con el ajedrez Correspondencia ¡Es fascinante comprobar hasta qué punto puede desintegrarse la razón cuando se enfrenta a una siniestra verdad ocasional y huye en desordenada retirada para mejor materializar un espejismo y construir defensas precarias contra el asalto de una realidad demasiado terrible!

Es fascinante comprobar hasta qué punto puede desintegrarse la razón cuando se enfrenta a una siniestra verdad ocasional y huye en desordenada retirada para mejor materializar un espejismo y construir defensas precarias contra el asalto de una realidad demasiado terrible!

but to pun on no less a maven than Blaise Pascal, "The art has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.

The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.