Quotes About Reason

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot 'needs mental therapy!

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.