Quotes About Reason

Such a concept of morality sounds noble and high-minded; the supreme importance of morality means that it must be based on the highest authority, and this is the authority of reason itself. However, as MacIntyre and other critics of Kant have noted, the grandeur of the structure of Kant's ethics is matched by the emptiness of its content

On the contrary, we seem to be strongly disposed to irrationality, as examples below will illustrate. Therefore, the idea that we can understand how beliefs should be formed by looking indiscriminately at how they are formed is a hopeless task. Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds (1994), by cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini sums up much of this evidence

The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.

Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness.

When the goddess Reason was set up as the idol of a sanguinary dictatorship and the French 'Enlightenment' was carried over the continent by military force, the charms of both faded quickly.

Immanuel Kant" "Noch wal

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason." By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing." Hugo Grotius

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Discuss. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en tales condiciones ella no podrá encontrar ninguna expresión.

Nada es barato sin una razón.

No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en estas condiciones no se puede encontrar ninguna expresión.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

Genius guarantees the faculties of the heart. Man is no less immortal than the soul. Great thoughts spring from reason! Fraternity is not a myth. Newborn children know nothing of life, not even greatness. In misfortune, friends increase.

The heart doesn't ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Season, if you die I will be cast into the bowels of hell. It was I who caused your accident. Open your eyes and release me from this torment!" the deep raspy voice commanded. "If you die, my lady, I will have no reason to live." The voice was very familiar. Season searched her mind, trying to remember where she had heard it before. "You are my lady," the raspy voice continued. "I love you more than my own life.

The bathroom door had a mirror on the outside of it, and I saw his face in that as he went by. It was evil, repulsive; you could tell by his face that his reason was slowly crumbling. He had his mouth open as if he was panting for air. The black beard, short as it was, made him look a little bit like an ape standing on its hind legs. He kept going back and forth, carrying clothes out of the closet.