Quotes About Reason

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

the start of a new era, in which the course of history might be made predictable and a government established that would be ruled not by accident and force but by reason and choice. The origins of that idea, and its fate, are the story of American history.

Can a political society really be governed by reflection and election, by reason and truth, rather than by accident and violence, by prejudice and deceit?

The person of faith cannot accept reason as the arbiter of truth without giving up on faith...

Stop derailing my plans with logic and reason,

At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.

And what's the point of doing something just to do it?

Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings and emotions). All of these are involved in the choices we make, but the engine that drives the train is the affective power. The traditional word for it is "heart.

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

What is the one thing that you'd never be able to sell in the market? Common sense! Those who have it wouldn't need to buy it. Those who don't have it wouldn't know what to do with it.

A world without a sense of direction, a people without a conscious commitment to reason and rightness, to quality of life and character of purpose, shape both the culture of the nation and the ongoing dedication to life by the souls that guide it. Only then can we know if what we leave behind can possibly spur commitment to creation rather than commitment to the detritus of our so-called profit-making.

I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire merely to be helpful. Renee and Joan Frances, in turn, were clear and straightforward about their needs in a way that was new for them. Yet we were seen as manipulative multiple and puppet therapist. Renee had probably never been less manipulative in her life than when she was trying to reason with Dr. Tate.

Para mentiras las de la realidad promete todo pero nada te da, yo nunca de mentí más que por verte reir. Menos piadosas que las del corazón son las mentiras de la diosa razón, yo solo te conté media verdad al revés (que no es igual que media mentira). Mejor que yo miente la necesidad; sabe de sobra como hacerte llorar; mi crimen fue vestir de azul al príncipe gris.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

a focus on the "supremacy of reason" as the master trope of colonial critique has displaced the enduring affective work that such rationalities perform.

that the smallest, truest reason he will never fly again is that the last airplane seat he ever sits in has to be the one beside his brother.

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.