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I am never upset for the reason I think.
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A Course In Miracles(Course on forgiveness based on Christianity, Eastern philosophy) |
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| Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
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Nicola Abbagnano(1901-1990, Italian existential philosopher) |
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| Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Woody Allen(1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian) |
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| A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Louis Aragon(1897-1982, French poet) |
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| There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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Louis Aragon(1897-1982, French poet) |
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| Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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Roger Bacon(1214-1294, British philosopher, scientist) |
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| Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Charles Baudelaire(1821-1867, French poet) |
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| As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
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Catharine Esther Beecher(1800-1878, American educator, writer) |
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| Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Allan Bloom(1930-1992, American educator, author) |
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| Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Nicholas Boileau(1636-1711, French literary poet, critic) |
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| We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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Henry Bolingbroke(1678-1751, British politician) |
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| To reason about love is to lose reason.
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| Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
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Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855, British novelist) |
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| As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
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Sir Thomas Browne(1605-1682, British author, physician, philosopher) |
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| If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Samuel Butler(1612-1680, British poet, satirist) |
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| A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort(1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright) |
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| The more you reason the less you create.
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Raymond Chandler(1888-1959, American author) |
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| If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton(1874-1936, British author) |
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| Let reason govern desire.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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E. M. Cioran(1911-1995, Rumanian-born French philosopher) |
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| The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
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Cyril Connolly(1903-1974, British critic) |
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| The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Bernard Devoto(1897-1955, American writer, critic, historian) |
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| No one ever excused his way to success.
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Dave Del Dotto(American businessman, author) |
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| He that will not reason is a bigot; He that cannot reason is a fool; and He that dares not reason is a slave.
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William Drummond(1585-1649, Celtic poet) |
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| Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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John Dryden(1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic) |
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| Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Henry Fielding(1707-1754, British novelist, dramatist) |
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| Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Erich Fromm(1900-1980, American psychologist) |
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| Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Robert Frost(1875-1963, American poet) |
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| A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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James A. Froude(1818-1894, British historian) |
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| Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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Gaius C. Gallus(c.70-26 BC, Gaul poet) |
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| Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.
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Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader) |
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| I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865, British novelist) |
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| Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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Ursula K. Le Guin(1929-, American author) |
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| Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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Alexander Hamilton(1757-1804, American statesman) |
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| As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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Vaclav Havel(1936-, Czech playwright, president) |
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| To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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William Hazlitt(1778-1830, British essayist) |
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| To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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Georg Hegel(1770-1831, German philosopher) |
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| What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
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Georg Hegel(1770-1831, German philosopher) |
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| Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Sir Arthur Helps(1813-1875, British historian, novelist, essayist) |
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| Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Aaron Hill(1685-1750, British dramatist) |
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| Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Immanuel Kant(1724-1804, German philosopher) |
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| We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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D. H. Lawrence(1885-1930, British author) |
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| Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg(1742-1799, German physicist, satirist) |
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