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“There always has to be a reason for the reason of the original reason that one had come to the reasoning that there was…

— Melissa Regas

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found…

— Tobias Wolff

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words,…

— William James

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

— Donald Calne

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

— Gutzon Borglum

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“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

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

— Blaise Pascal