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QUOTES including the word: "reason"

Bernard Shaw:
  • As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

    • Hawking:
  • There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”

    • Pascal:
  • The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

    • Nietzsche:
  • There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

    • Galileo Galilei:
  • “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

    • Schweitzer:
  • Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everythin happens for a reason.

    • Novalis:
  • Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

    • Jose Craveirinha:
  • Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

    • Voltaire:
  • Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

    • Jose Martí:
  • Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

    • Jacqueline Romilly:
  • I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

    • Montesquieu:
  • There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

    • Hobbes:
  • The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”

    • Mikhail Bakunin:
  • People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

    • Kipling:
  • We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

    • Petrarca:
  • True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

    • Galileo Galilei:
  • “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

    • Thomas Paine:
  • To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

    • Stefan Zweig:
  • In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

    • Calderon:
  • What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

    • William Thackeray:
  • People hate as they love, unreasonably.

    • Hawking:
  • Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

    • Feuerbach:
  • The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.

    • Nietzsche:
  • The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous play thing.

    • Tennyson:
  • Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

    • Bach:
  • The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

    • Freddie Mercury:
  • The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

    • Rousseau:
  • We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

    • Immanuel Kant:
  • Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

    • Sartre:
  • Every existing being is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

    • L. Wittgenstein:
  • It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

    • Galileo Galilei:
  • Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

    • Immanuel Kant:
  • All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

    • Tagore:
  • Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

    • Voltaire:
  • The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

    • Sophocles:
  • The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

    • Spinoza:
  • Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

    • Luther:
  • Reason is the enemy of faith.

    • Karl Marx:
  • Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

    • Cicero:
  • Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

    • Luther:
  • Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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