1,806 Quotes About Reason

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over long stretches of time have left us better or worse off? How, in particular, are we to make sense of modernity—of the erosion of family, tribe, tradition, and religion by the forces of individualism, cosmopolitanism, reason, and science?

A nation advances in proportion to reason and compassion.

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Violence has reasons, that reason itself cannot know

No matter how trivial the recollections seem, note them down, and try searching for a pattern in them.

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?""The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.

The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.