Reason Quotes

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

~ Lin Yutang

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

~ David Hume

The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side.

~ Jessica Patricia

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

~ Emma Cameron

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

~ Jane Austen

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical access to reality. So completely does he identify experience and reality that he cannot liberate himself from thinking of the two as one and the same. In equating experience and reality, he is making a huge and unwarranted leap. But this breakdown of reason is not easy for him or us to recognize because our human minds have a built-in disposition toward illusion – the illusion that reality must be exactly the way we experience it. The irony is that many of the people who proceed in this irrational way think of themselves as following strictly along the pathways of reason.

~ Dinesh D'souza

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of danger-ous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the personof an antagonist odious.

~ David Hume

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell.

~ Hugh Of St. Victor

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

~ R. Alan Woods

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

~ Leo Tolstoy

... insanity is never reasonable.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

~ Michelle Templet

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

~ Michelle Templet

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic.

~ R. Alan Woods

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.

~ Ayn Rand

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

~ Mango Wodzak

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

~ Tom Cheetham

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

~ Colonel Sanders

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

~ Ralph Steadman

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

~ Tacitus

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

~ William Blake

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.

~ Ryne Sandberg

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

~ Anne Lamott

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

~ Boris Vallejo

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.

~ Louis Aragon

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

~ Jay Electronica

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

~ Edward De Bono

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

~ Maynard James Keenan

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

~ Robert M. La Follette

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

~ Tony Judt

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

~ Hideki Tojo

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

~ Frederick W. Smith

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

~ Hugh Grant

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

~ Shinzo Abe

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

~ Blaise Pascal

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

~ Brigitte Bardot