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He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both, and does much the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope. - John Locke (1) To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. - John Locke (1), Letter to Antony Collins, Esq. An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. - James Russell Lowell It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is. - James Russell Lowell Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. - Martin Luther Reason is the enemy of faith. - Martin Luther Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. - Thomas Mann The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. - John Stuart Mill Indued with sanctity of reason. - John Milton 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, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112) Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 40) Indu'd With sanctity of reason. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 507) All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite, Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Misanthrope (I, 1) But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Misanthrope (I, 1) He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason. - Sir Thomas More, advising an author to put his manuscript into rhyme Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker What is reason now was passion heretofore. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. - Thomas Paine How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women. - Emmeline Pankhurst Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. - Blaise Pascal The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool. - Blaise Pascal The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. - Blaise Pascal Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. - Alexander Pope Displaying page 4 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7
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