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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. -
Charlotte Bronte
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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. -
E M Cioran
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. -
Lord Chesterfield
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -
Thomas Carlyle
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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. -
Benjamin Disraeli
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. -
Henry Bolingbroke
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. -
Allan Bloom
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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. -
Catharine Esther Beecher
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. -
Charles Baudelaire
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. -
Roger Bacon
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. -
Louis Aragon
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. -
Louis Aragon
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. -
Samuel Butler
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