reason Quotes

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“Time makes more converts than reason.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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