reason Quotes

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

― Carl Jung, Memories

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“and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days;”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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“I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.”

― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

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“There is no greater monster than reason.”

― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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“Human reason is by nature architectonic.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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