Reason Quote by Peter Singer

“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

“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.”

— Immanuel Kant

“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once…

— Steven Pinker

“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

“when you have the reasons, reason!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Some people realize what they want, and only then do they find reasons for justifying it. Some find the first reason that comes to…

— Saad Ireland

“Any reason could be made for self-justification.”

— Toba Beta

“Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“the general effect of attempting things beyond us, even though we fail, is to enlarge and liberalize the mind.”

— Ann Shen

“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin