Reason

(36 votes)   there is a reason for every reason and the word reason itself is for a reason

khalid sher
student

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(25 votes)   Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Soren F. Petersen

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(239 votes)   Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

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(221 votes)   A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(208 votes)   Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(148 votes)   I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

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(99 votes)   Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(98 votes)   The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(90 votes)   Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(88 votes)   The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic

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(87 votes)   Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(76 votes)   Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Welsh Proverbs
Sayings of Welsh Origin

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(63 votes)   Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(59 votes)   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 suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(53 votes)   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.

Charlotte Bronte
1816-1855, British Novelist

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