Quotes on reason

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

Groucho Marx

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Alberto Manguel

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

Criss Jami

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

Mark Twain

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

Alain de Botton

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”

Suzy Kassem

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

David Hume

“Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”

Amit Kalantri

“You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.”

Suzy Kassem

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

Stefan Molyneux

“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”

Lin Yutang

“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”

Therese Doucet

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”

Abhijit Naskar

“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!”

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason”

Immanuel Kant

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

Emil Cioran

“Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.”

Robert Zaretsky

“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”

Thomas Aquinas

“If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)”

Erik Pevernagie

“The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.”

Will Advise

“But Athena had no babe, and she never would. Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as reason.”

Madeline Miller

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

Shannon L. Alder