1,806 Quotes About Reason

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Belief in God, messiah or some spiritual con-artist is optional, but belief in the self is imperative.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO PICK UP A GUN AGAINST A MAN TALKING REASON

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.

Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht.