The Reason Quotes

There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle—lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Every little or big problem has a reason, Every year there is a winter season, Every trouble goes away with time, After winter spring comes with rhyme.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals

We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.

When we need reasons to do something, we pretend to have it.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

Never! while heaven spares my reason, ’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand.

Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Your heart influences your art.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.

When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. Munindra Misra

Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The sleep of reason encourages the elections.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

Nihil est sine ratione.[There is nothing without a reason.]

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, " Scytale murmured.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?""You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

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

Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like you.