Excess Quote by Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

— Anonymous

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a…

— Blaise Pascal

“What sustains us, in belief as in action, is not reason or justification, but something more basic than these--for we go on in the…

— Thomas Nagel

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

— Paul Tillich

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

— Philip Rieff

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in…

— Jeanette Winterson

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

— Samuel Adams

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much the more…

— Immanuel Kant

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

— Hippocrates

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes…

— Allen W. Wood