• I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 144 reads

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 110 reads

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• If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 11 reads

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• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 7 reads

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• It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 36 reads

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• Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 19 reads

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• Let reason govern desire.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 29 votes · 100 reads

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• Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 10 votes · 156 reads

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• Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 7 reads

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• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

  

  Saint Augustine

  TheologianRoman354 · 4th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 23 reads

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• Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 4 reads

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• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 51 reads

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 63 reads

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• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 199 reads

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the supp

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 61 reads

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• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 127 reads

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• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 111 reads

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• Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 194 reads

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• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 44 reads

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• Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 27 reads

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• Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 65 reads

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• Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 197 reads

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 33 votes · 90 reads

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• Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

  

  Antoine Rivarol

  WriterFrench1753 · 18th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 182 reads

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• Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

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  Niccolò Machiavelli

  PoliticianItaly1469 · 15th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 3 reads

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• Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.4 · 37 votes · 5 reads

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• Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 147 reads

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• Reason should direct and appetite obey.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.8 · 10 votes · 36 reads

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall sti

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  Charlotte Bronte

  PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 127 reads

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• Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 193 reads

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• Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 54 votes · 17 reads

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• Strong reasons make strong actions.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 7 reads

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• Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 138 reads

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

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 56 votes · 100 reads

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• The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 162 reads

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• The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 162 reads

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• The more you reason the less you create.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 174 reads

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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 29 reads

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 14 reads

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

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 141 reads

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• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 63 reads

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 59 reads

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 18 votes · 49 reads

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• Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information, never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of g

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 47 reads

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 157 reads

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• You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 10 votes · 22 reads

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