Quotes about Reason

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

of all things, the greatest, and most important, and most all-embracing, is this society in which human beings and God are associated together. From this are derived the generative forces to which not only my father and grandfather owe their origin, but also all beings that are born and grow on the earth, and especially rational beings, [5] since they alone are fitted by nature to enter into communion with the divine, being bound to God through reason.

greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

According to him the faculty of choice distinguishes humans from irrational animals. We can make considered choices among 'impressions' or 'appearances', meaning anything that comes within range of our senses, together with whatever thoughts and feelings these sensations evoke. While all animals are subject to impressions, those of humans differ by virtue of the fact that we possess the power of language and reason (both faculties expressed by the single word logos).

The reason why I lost my lamp was that the thief was superior to me in vigilance. He paid however this price for the lamp, that in exchange for it he consented to become a thief: in exchange for it, to become faithless.