Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish? Marcus Aurelius

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Reason was given to people to help them escape reality. Leo Tolstoy

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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. Euripides

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Reason has a natural and rightful authority over desire and affection. Plato

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True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Spinoza

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If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. Louis Brandeis

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Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to thy reason. Seneca

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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Sir Walter Scott

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When folly passes by, reason draws back. Japanese Proverb

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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson

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Tis in vain to speak reason where it will not be heard. Thomas Fuller

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Thomas Mann

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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts by nature. Cicero

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Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Martin Luther

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of the few. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. John Chrysostom

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There need not be in religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, anything that is against reason; but never while the sun shines will we get great religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, without going beyond reason. Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Reason never has failed man. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. William White

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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of caprice and passion. Thomas Browne

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Logical behavior often comes dangerously near toppling over into the absurd. Louise Cristina

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Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is a most important privilege of the human mind; and if well conducted, is one of the greatest friends to truth. But when reason knows neither its office nor its limits, and when employed on subjects foreign to its jurisdiction, it then becomes a privilege dangerous to be exercised. Jean D'Aubigne

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Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason. John Dryden

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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins. Will Durant

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We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason. J. G. Fichte

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I plead, not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason itself. Mahatma Gandhi

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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W. Somerset Maugham

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He who established his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne

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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. Jawaharlal Nehru

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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. Sydney Smith

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For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett

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