mary-wollstonecraft Quotes About reason

“The mind, too, should be soothed . . . whenever it sinks, soothing is, better than reasoning. The slackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppressed by sorrow, it cannot in a moment grow tranquil, and attend to the voice of reason.”

Reason Comforting Others

Book:Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Source: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Forbearance and liberality of sentiment are the virtues of maturity.”

Reason Virtue Ethics

Book:Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Source: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?”

Life Reason Carpe Diem

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”

Feels Reason

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?”

Source: The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman

“The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.”

Mind Reason Parent Duty Accounts Absurd Obedience Submission Being A Parent Obeying Shackles

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.”

Reason Morality Behavior Operations

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.”

Reason Habit Fixed Good Habits

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”

Thinking Reason Home Opinion Support Subjects Add Labour Spares Remarks Sluggish

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.”

Reason Literature Atheism Authority Rational Virtuous Vindication

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.”

Men Reason Church Dark Property Substance Priests Torment Secured Purgatory

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.”

Years Firsts Heart Important Book Reason Feelings Choices Reading Understanding Imagination Highest Employment Fancy Branches Touched Solitary Employed Amusement Ripening

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.”

Men Reason Seems Justice Diversity Roots Prejudice Social Justice Justify

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Justice Opinion Sorrow Diversity Weakness Tasks Social Justice Endless Variety Charm Prevailing Meanness

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

Men Love Real Reason Individual Demand Fellows Womens Rights Submission Homage Vindication

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.”

Reason Facts Results Virtue Atheism Exercise Positive Atheism Virtuous Farce

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.”

Feels Reason

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

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