Aphorism Quote by Anonymous

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies…

— Bill Vaughan

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

— Edward Abbey

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

— Umberto Eco

“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right…

— Terry Goodkind

“Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full…

— Dan Millman

“The first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this ineducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built...that…

— Terry Goodkind

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

“It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and…

— David Hume

“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it…

— Immanuel Kant