Quotes about Reason

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason's having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.