REASON QUOTES VI

quotations about reason

Whenever he was required to use his reason he felt like someone who had always used his right hand but was now required to do something with his left.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook B", The Waste Books

Tags: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Who builds on Reason builds upon the sand
A fabric mortal as the human brain.

FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS

"Sic Itur Ad Astra"

Tags: Francis Howard Williams


My reason is the universe's voice.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"Prayer", Poetical Meditations

Tags: Alphonse de Lamartine


Reason is a religious duty and quality of the mind; and exercise of the judgment upon all occasions and subjects is true and most divine worship.

CORA HATCH

"The Religion of Life", Discourses on Religion, Morals, Philosophy and Metaphysics


Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters

Tags: Jack London


Beasts act by sense, man should by reason; else he is a greater beast than ever God made: And the proverb is verified, the corruption of the best things is the worst and most offensive.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Reason often overturns experience.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah

Tags: Frank Herbert


It is to no manner of purpose that we have reason on our side, when the laugh is against us.

ROBERT BOLTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Tags: Margaret Atwood


False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

Tags: Fernando Pessoa


He that gives Reason for what he saith, has done what is fit to be done; and the most that can be done: He, that gives not Reason, speaks nothing, though he saith never so much.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Tags: Benjamin Whichcote


To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

Tags: Alexander Pope


Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions--if there's any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

TAD WILLIAMS

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Tags: Tad Williams


When God is contriving misfortunes for man, He first deprives him of his reason.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Man parts with his freedom and enslaves himself when he subjects himself to that which is not sovereign in him, as Reason is.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms