Quotes About Reason

Youth makes poor judgment. Youth is driven by hormones. Reason takes a backseat to blind obsession with the opposite sex.

Refugiei-me na doideira porque a razão não me bastava.

Você tem razão, não adianta se preocupar pois para cada problema existem muitas soluções.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Pesimista con la razón, optimista con la voluntad.

Philosophy is inexistent without reason. Weigh things as they are.

I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j'ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m'arrête pas du tout.

rational is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.

To be sure, to impose Reason upon an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea—

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.

reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise of the Romantic school.

Reason in this newer philosophy took its starting point with childish naivete in its own integrity and trustworthiness.

whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom and independence, and degrades himself to an instrument for an alien and unknown power.

74. The Earth is brutish; the Heaven is reasonable or rational.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Why would you want the damned fetched back from Hell? There's a reason God put them where they are.

Policy is the servant of reason. It is a sort of blasphemy to make human reason contradict itself and advise in the name of policy what it forbids in the name of morality.

Why would you want the damned fetched back from Hell? There's a reason God put them where they are.

Henry is a man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.