Reason Quotes
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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.
I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.
