1,806 Quotes About Reason

...you couldn’t just make slaves of men for no reason.

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

Unlike ordinary feelings, the feeling of reason and the feeling of respect do not have a sensible cause; their cause is reason itself.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.

If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go.

A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.