112 quotes found
“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.”
“He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.”
“Reason can in general do more than blind force.”
“If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.”
“Come now and let us reason together.”
“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
“Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.”
“You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.”
“The feast of reason and the flow of soul.”
“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.”
“Every why hath a wherefore.”
“I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.”
“Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.”
“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”
“The sum is this, —As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces in meditation; and more especially in meditating on the joys of heaven, To this end, set apart o...”
“He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank w...”
“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t dra...”
“It's against reason," said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.”
“Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”
“The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)”
