Quotes
Quotes about Reason
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating.
Reason, Observation, and Experienceâ the Holy Trinity of Science.
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why!
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
