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“Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.”
“Reason and right give the quickest despatch.”
“Reason and science have always, today and from the very beginning of time, played a secondary and a subordinate part; and so they will to the end of time. People are formed and moved by quite a different force, a force that dominates and exercises its authority over them, the origin of which, however, is unknown and inexplicable. That force is the force of an unquenchable desire to go on to the end and, at the same time, to deny the existence of an end. It is the force of an incessant and persistent affirmation of its existence and a denial of death. It is the spirit of life, as the Scripture says, "rivers of living water", the running dry of which is threatened in Revelation. It is the aesthetic principle, as the philosophers call it, an ethical principle, with which they identify it, the "seeking of God", as I call it much more simply. The purpose of the whole evolution of a nation, in every people and at every period of its existence, is solely the pursuit of God, their God, their very own God, and faith in Him as in the only true one. God is the synthetic personality of the whole people, taken from its beginning to its end. There has never yet been a nation without a religion, that is to say, without the conception of good and evil. Every people has its own conception of good and evil and its own good and evil. When the conceptions of good and evil become general among many nations, then these nations begin to die out, and the very distinction between good and evil begins to get blurred and to vanish.”
Source: Demons
“Reason and speech we onely bring.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.”
“Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.”
“Reason and truth will prevail at last”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
“Reason and understanding are represented as the voluntary slaves of the senses.”
Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
“Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.”
“Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.”
“Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.”
“Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.”
Source: Healology
“Reason, by shedding its rationalistic illusions in the hell it made for the world as domination, may nevertheless withstand that hell and recognize it for what it is.”
“Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.”
“Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Reason can be used only when looking critically back.”
“Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.”
“Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.”
“Reason can in general do more than blind force.”
“Reason can justify the most evil act as it condemns the most noble one.”
“Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.”
“Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.”
“Reason can never prove the existence of God.”
“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”
Source: Bowen's Court
“Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.”
“Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.”
“Reason cannot break out of its own loop.”
“Reason cannot compete with emotion when it comes to love.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.”
“Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.”
“Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.”
“Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.”
Source: The Venture of Rational Faih
“Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.”
Source: Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
“Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.”
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”
Source: Pensées
“Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.”
“Reason deceives us more often than does nature.”
“Reason deceives us; conscience, never.”
“Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
“Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS.”
Source: Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
“Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.”
“Reason dies collapsing under its own load.”
“Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea.”
“Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.”