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""All things happen for a reason . . . even "No Reason" is still a reason."" »Tom Zegan
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"The man who listens to reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings." »Felix Frankfurter
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"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer." »Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field." »Albert Einstein
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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
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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." »Henry Bolingbroke
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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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"Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason." »John Powell
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"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason." »James Ramsey
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"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason." »Jeremy Taylor
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"The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself." »Francis Quarles
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"Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Why is this thus What is the reason for this thusness" »Artemus Ward
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"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?" »Artemus Ward
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Law is mind without reason." »Aristotle
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"Love is the reason for it all." »Dorothy Fields
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"There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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"Vanity is the quicksand of reason." »George Sands
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"Time heals what reason cannot." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." »Ken Olson
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry." »Oscar Wilde
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