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Quotes about reason
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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. (Ambrose Stephen)
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. (Ambrose Stephen)
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. (Ambrose Stephen)
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
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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. (Ambrose Stephen)
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. (Ambrose Stephen)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. (Ambrose Stephen)
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. (Ambrose Stephen)
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. (Ambrose Stephen)
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. (Ambrose Stephen)
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. (Ambrose Stephen)
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. (Ambrose Stephen)
To reason about love is to lose reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
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 still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. (Ambrose Stephen)
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. (Ambrose Stephen)
The more you reason the less you create. (Ambrose Stephen)
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. (Ambrose Stephen)
Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Ambrose Stephen)
Let reason govern desire. (Ambrose Stephen)
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. (Ambrose Stephen)
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. (Ambrose Stephen)
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Ambrose Stephen)
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