Aphorism Quote by Bill Vaughan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Umberto Eco

“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

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

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

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery -…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“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

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed us to…

— John Medina

“(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

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

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction…

— Mark Twain