Quotes About Reason

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God's country into the enemy's land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him who is a righteous Judge - Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that be.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

The goal is not perfection. The goal is the passionate pursuit. You are here for a reason!

I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

If it is logical, its not love.

I loved myself enough to let you go. I loved you enough to know we're better without all the colliding pain. Nothing is the externality of reason.

Love can only give you the reason to express your emotions, while hate gives you the courage to stand firm.