112 quotes found
“Faith is not contrary to reason.”
“The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.”
“If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.”
“Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.”
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
“I like reality. It tastes of bread.”
“The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)”
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
“We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery st...”
“Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.”
“When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.”
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
“Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.”
“The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.”
“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.”
“Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?”
“The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.”
“Reason is also choice.”
“Reason is an emotion for the sexless.”
“The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”
