Reason Quotes - page 5

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. (Thomas Mann)
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. View quote
Jonathan Swift
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! View quote
William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. View quote
William Blake
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. View quote
Francesco Guicciardini
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. View quote
James Russell Lowell
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. (Clare Boothe Luce)
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. View quote
John Cale
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. View quote
Martha Graham
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels. View quote
Francisco Goya
Emotions have taught mankind to reason. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. View quote
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