Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise;
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. 1, l. 117)
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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"I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder
Voltaire
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. Lewis
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
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It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en
raisonner.]
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Quotes , Source: Barbier de Seville (V, 4)
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Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
Laertius Diogenes
Quotes , Source: Socrates (V)
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He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and
he who dares not, is a slave.
Sir William Drummond (2)
Quotes , Source: Academical Question (end of preface)
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Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Quotes , Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. II)
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.
Thomas Hobbes
Quotes , Source: Works (III, p. 91), (ed. 1839)
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You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I
endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."
John Keats
Quotes , Source: Letters to Fanny Braune (VIII)
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The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Quotes , Source: Fables (I, 10)
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.
John Locke
Quotes , Source: Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112)
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Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 40)
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Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 507)
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