Reason Quotes
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason
Blaise Pascal
When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
Proverb
The more you reason the less you create
Raymond Chandler
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
Martin Luther
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
Blaise Pascal
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
ERICH FROMM
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Soren F. Petersen
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.
D. H. Lawrence
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
These are the reasons that help to explain the perversity of an adult who prefers the company of youths to that of grownups. He prefers the promising might be to the defective is.
Allan David Bloom
