112 quotes found
“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.”
“Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.”
“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.”
“He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.”
“Come now and let us reason together.”
“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.”
“Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
