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Quotes about Reason
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“Reason over passion.”
“Let reason govern desire.”
“Everyone has his reasons.”
“Reason is emotion for the sexless.”
“Strong reasons make strong actions.”
“To reason about love is to lose reason.”
“Reason should direct and appetite obey.”
“No one ever excused his way to success.”
“The more you reason the less you create.”
“Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”
“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
“Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.”
“Reason can in general do more than blind force.”
“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”
“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
“Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.”
“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.”
“What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”
“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
“He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.”
“A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.”
“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”
“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
“I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.”
“What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.”
“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
“The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.”