R Quotes
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“Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.”
“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”
“Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.”
“Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.”
Source: Before I Kill More ...
“Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.”
Source: Dante
“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope
“Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.”
“Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
Source: We Shadows
“Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
Source: Collected Works
“Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirrored on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, oh, delighting me!”
Source: Poems By Ralph Hodgson
“Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.”
“Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.”
Source: Teología de la liberación
“Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.”
Source: Philosophical writings
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
Source: Philosophical Texts
“Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.”
Source: The Middle Span
“Reason, in the end, will win against unreason.”
Source: Politics: Between the Extremes
“Reason is 6/7 of treason.”
“Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.”
“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
“Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.”
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.”
Source: Aristotle, with an English Translation: The
“Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.”
Source: A Rival From the Grave
“Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.”
Source: Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge
“Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.”
Source: Blue in Chicago
“Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.”
Source: Letters
“Reason is a sugarcoated word for sophistry.”
Source: Sense of a Quiet
“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.”
Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.”
“Reason is a thing that proves only itself. If you use reason to work out what is valid, you’ll find that the only valid things are those you can reach by reason. These things we call ‘reasonable’. So what? If you use God as the measure of what is valid, you’ll find that the only valid things are those you can reach by God. These things we call ‘godly’. This tells you nothing more about things in themselves, only about your process of arriving at them.”
Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and who therefore build fantasy intellectual structures to hide in.”
Source: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism And Socialism From Rousseau To Foucault
“Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.”
“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.”
Source: Tale of a Tub: written for the universal improvemend of mankind
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
“Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges”
“Reason is also choice.”
Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”
“Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.”
“Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
“Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.”