Ideas Quote by Mason Cooley

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at…

— Anonymous

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

— Thomas Paine

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

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

— Allan Bloom

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

— Allan Bloom

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

— Herbert Marcuse

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can…

— Karl Jaspers

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

— Eric Weiner

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

“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