reason Quotes

“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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“Naturally Every Man Has Right To Everything And because the condition of Man . . . is a condition of Warre of every one against every one; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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