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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method—more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records—of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered
[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms, as essentially a deist. He is a determinist: there are no miracles (the events so called being merely instances of infrequently occurring natural laws); Christ has no real role in the system; we live forever, and hence we carry on after our deaths, but then everything — every individual substance — carries on forever.
— Peter Loptson
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au plus faible dègré, á des calculs ou raisonnements mathematiques.I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.
— Hiram Stevens Maxim
Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.
— Benjamin Silliman, Elements of Chemistry: In the Order of the Lectures Given in Yale College. Volume 2 of 2
If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food.
— Jonathan Edwards
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Cours D'Analyse de L'Ecole Royale Polytechnique
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
— George Gabriel Stokes
Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.''I will. I was.''Why, then, didn't you follow the voice of that attraction?''I decided it would be wiser to follow the voice of good sense.''Meaning?''Years of practice in the witcher's trade have taught me not to bite off more than I can chew. Do you know, Vilgefortz, I once knew a dwarf, who, as a child, dreamed of being an elf. What do you think; would he have become one had he followed the voice of attraction?
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy
Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?""You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her
— Josephine Angelini, Goddess
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
— Baruch Spinoza
...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity.The scientific principle that a claim is untrue unless proven otherwise runs counter to our natural tendency to accept as true that which we can comprehend quickly. Thus it is that we should reward skepticism and disbelief, and champion those willing to change their mind in the teeth of new evidence. Instead, most social institutions-most notably those in religion, politics, and economics-reward belief in the doctrines of the faith or party or ideology, punish those who challenge the authority of the leaders, and discourage uncertainty and especially skepticism.
— Michael Shermer
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
— Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the process of life or society in the seventeenth century, and although there may be a nod towards astrology or the crossed finger today, superstition is not seriously used in decision making. ... Scientific thinking, which similarly developed in the seventeenth century, has been influential in bringing this change. We now see that tornadoes and earthquakes have rational explanations in terms of climatology and seismology rather than as divine punishments. Most people when deciding whether to take a new job, embark on a divorce, or simply plan a holiday will not seek divine guidance, but rather discuss with themselves or others the issues of cause and effect.
— Jim Herrick, Humanism: An Introduction
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.
— Alva Noë
All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them... The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.
— Pierre Charron, Of Wisdome
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
— John K.  Brown
Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.
— Kresley Cole, Poison Princess
... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
— Edward Feser, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History
Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
— K.J. Bishop, The Etched City
Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands they pulsed with that same pulse. He had taken a bird and warmed it between his hands or inside his jacket, brought the life back until it was able to fly. Sometimes, released from his hands, they circled once around him before flying away; in gratitude, or so the child had believed--and the belief had survived all the man's science.
— Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny the truth of the New Testament; and that to deny the existence of these imps of darkness is to contradict the words of Jesus Christ.I did say that if we give up the belief in devils we must give up the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, and we must give up the divinity of Christ. Upon that declaration I stand, because if devils do not exist, then Jesus Christ was mistaken, or we have not in the New Testament a true account of what he said and of what he pretended to do.If the New Testament gives a true account of his words and pretended actions, then he did claim to cast out devils. That was his principal business. That was his certificate of divinity, casting out devils. That authenticated his mission and proved that he was superior to the hosts of darkness.Now, take the devil out of the New Testament, and you also take the veracity of Christ; with that veracity you take the divinity; with that divinity you take the atonement, and when you take the atonement, the great fabric known as Christianity becomes a shapeless ruin.The Christians now claim that Jesus was God. If he was God, of course the devil knew that fact, and yet, according to this account, the devil took the omnipotent God and placed him upon a pinnacle of the temple, and endeavored to induce him to dash himself against the earth…Think of it! The devil – the prince of sharpers – the king of cunning – the master of finesse, trying to bribe God with a grain of sand that belonged to God!Casting out devils was a certificate of divinity.Is there in all the religious literature of the world anything more grossly absurd than this?These devils, according to the Bible, were of various kinds – some could speak and hear, others were deaf and dumb. All could not be cast out in the same way. The deaf and dumb spirits were quite difficult to deal with. St. Mark tells of a gentleman who brought his son to Christ. The boy, it seems, was possessed of a dumb spirit, over which the disciples had no control. “Jesus said unto the spirit: ‘Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him.’” Whereupon, the deaf spirit (having heard what was said) cried out (being dumb) and immediately vacated the premises.The ease with which Christ controlled this deaf and dumb spirit excited the wonder of his disciples, and they asked him privately why they could not cast that spirit out. To whom he replied: “This kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?The trouble is, these pious people shut up their reason, and then open their Bible.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
— Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak of having a great, noble, craven, daring, or debased soul, but to come right out with "my soul" is something one simply cannot bring oneself to do. It is distinctly anolder person's word, and this can only be understood by assuming that in the course of life people become more and more aware of something for which they urgently need a name they cannot find until they finally resort, reluctantly, to the name they had originally despised. How to describe it, then? Whether one is at rest or in motion, what matters is not what lies ahead, what one sees, hears, wants, takes, masters. It forms a horizon, a semicircle before one, but the ends of this semicircle are joined by a string, and the plane of this string goes right through·the middle of the world. In front, the face and hands look out of it; sensations and strivings run ahead of it, and no one doubts that whatever one does·is always reasonable, or at least passionate. In other words, outercircumstances call for us to act in a way everyone can understand; and if, in the toils of passion, we do something incomprehensible, that too is, in its own way, understandable.
— Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.
— Sri Aurobindo
There is only one power which can from within undermine egoism at the root, and really does undermine it, namely love, and chiefly sexual love. The falsehood and evil of egoism consists in the exclusive acknowledgement of absolute significance for oneself and in the denial of it for others. Reason shows us that this is unfounded and unjust, but simply by the facts love directly abrogates such an unjust relation, compelling us not by abstract consciousness, but by an internal emotion and the will of life to recognize for ourselves the absolute significance of another. Recognizing in love the truth of another, not abstractly, but essentially, transferring in deed the centre of our life beyond the limits of our empirical personality, we by so doing reveal and realize our own real truth, our own absolute significance, which consists just in our capacity to transcend the borders of our factual phenomenal being, in our capacity to live not only in ourselves, but also in another.
— Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, The Meaning of Love
The idea persists that faith is a remnant of an ancient way of life, a way of knowing that asks for unthinking acceptance of a belief system or adherence to specific dogma. This may be the case for some spiritual traditions, but the Buddha insisted that his disciples investigate his teachings with the powers of reason, test them in the inner laboratory of meditation, and build their faith on a firm foundation of knowledge. As a result, faith in the Dharma implies faith in one's ability to recognize truth when it presents itself and to take responsibility for verifying it through analysis and meditative experience.
— Dharma Publishing, Ways of Enlightenment
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
— Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
— C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain't useful, but finding evidence that your theories are wrong is priceless. Never try to prove yourself right -- always try to prove yourself wrong instead.
— Andy Lane, Fire Storm
A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like you.
— Jus Accardo, Tremble
The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already 
— Rex Stout
The reason gold-diggers trivializerelationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?
— William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth. by William Shakespear. to Which Are Added All the Original Songs.
Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don’t know the seed-reason. It’s deep inside her, and it’ll take time and patience to get it out of her.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.
— C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan
I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
— D.H. Lawrence
The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim - and by 'science' we simply mean the notion of a universal, autonomous reason. Science, then, is opposed to narrative, which attempts not to prove its claims but rather to proclaim them within a story.
— James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Screw you, I don't hate you I just don't find any good reason to like you.
— Faith chrissabelle
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born."- Elizabeth's Quotes
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
Life is a MISSIONFulfilled through our VISIONLive life well this SEASONYou were born for a REASON...
— Israelmore Ayivor
Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
— Montesquieu, Persian Letters
Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.
— Penn Jillette
Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
... and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days...
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variety. But there are also no devils, no hellfire, no wicked witches, no ghosts, no haunted houses, no daemonic possession, no bogeymen or ogres. Yes, Teddy and Dolly turn out not to be really alive. But there are warm, live, speaking, thinking, adult bedf ellows to hold, and many of us find it a more rewarding kind of love than the childish affection for stuffed toys, however soft and cuddly they may be.
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our caterpillar nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists and quacks. The genius of the human child, mental caterpillar extraordinary, is for soaking up information and ideas, not for criticizing them. If critical faculties later grow it will be in spite of, not because of, the inclinations of childhood. The blotting paper of the child's brain is the unpromising seedbed, the base upon which later the sceptical attitude, like a struggling mustard plant, may possibly grow. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive scepticism of adult science.
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
It's against reason," said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.
— J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.
— Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Faith and Understanding
Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.
— Paul Tillich
A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason
— Lucinda Brant, Midnight Marriage
The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard." ~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012)
— R. Alan Woods, Just Keep’in It Real: The Complete Collection of Essays, Notes, Letters, Articles, and Reviews
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 it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if you detect a flaw in this argument, it is reason that allows you to point it out and defend an alternative.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, Kingdom Come: The Already But Not Yet
What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.
— Joey Lawsin
... reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days...
— William Shakespeare
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 5 Vols
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
— Isaac Newton
It doesn’t matter why I want to leave. You’re the reason I want to stay.
— Emily Hainsworth, Through to You
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
— Baruch Spinoza
There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.
— Georges Edouard Lemaître
Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.
— Alec Wilkinson
This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have been knocked over and spilled on everything.
— Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
— Martin Luther
Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind
— And the only way that life can go wrongis by the limited finite mind.
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.
— Aldous Huxley, Island
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
— Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
— David Hume
The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side.
— jessica patricia
I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
— G.K. Chesterton
Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
— Jane Austen, Emma
The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical access to reality. So completely does he identify experience and reality that he cannot liberate himself from thinking of the two as one and the same. In equating experience and reality, he is making a huge and unwarranted leap. But this breakdown of reason is not easy for him or us to recognize because our human minds have a built-in disposition toward illusion – the illusion that reality must be exactly the way we experience it. The irony is that many of the people who proceed in this irrational way think of themselves as following strictly along the pathways of reason.
— Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About Christianity
There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of danger-ous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the personof an antagonist odious.
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell.
— Hugh of St. Victor
God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007]
— R. Alan Woods
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
... insanity is never reasonable.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.
— Michelle Templet
If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.
— Michelle Templet
Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".
— R. Alan Woods
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.'  'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you throw ice at the sun, it will melt; if you throw spears, they will burn; and if you throw bricks, they will crumble. The sun is invincible; all that comes before it is consumed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
In a life that does not last forever create something that will last forever.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
To forget the call on your life to express your best is to leave the world smaller than you find it today.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Success is not a function of the size of your office but the depth of your contribution.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Leverage the pain of excuses into the seeds of greatness.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
All honor and greatness is born of the humble. Be exalted in humility as you rise to lift your life and your expertise.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The respect you give to others dramatically reflects the respect you give to yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Be memorable. Be outstanding.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Cursing the sun won't stop it from rising
—  neither will cursing the stars stop them from shining.
Why ask for respect, deserve it.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
You cannot leave your goodness behind without stumbling into greatness
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
A silent room is not an affluent room.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways i know of to honor that person.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your skill is the artistry you bring to your world, put out awe inspiring work.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The longest life is a relatively short stint. Why pursue the superficial?
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Eventually nothing will matter, this page, where you are sitting, your degree, your job, your money except love and human connection.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Remember, there's few things as powerful as being true to yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
And we are put on earth a little space, so that we may learn to love for we can't do great things, only small things with great love.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
All work is a means to express your awesome talent. Beat your fears and produce gorgeous value for other human beings.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Greatness unfolds beyond your comfort zone.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The words you use can destroy people's confidence or provoke their greatness. Use your words to lift your world.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The words you use can destroy people's confidence or provoke their greatness. Use your words to add value.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
A great part of being human is the relentless quest for better.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Today be more excellent than demanded. And more generous than expected.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Don’t settle for greatness. There’s room for exceeding greatness if you can conceive the dream.
— Benjamin Suulola
You learn to see greatness when you happen upon it within yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Starting strong is impressive but ending strong is legendary.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Be a model for the world, never a critic.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Today will soon enough become tomorrow and spent wisely, will then become a yesterday to remember.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Life is short be helpful.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Less time on trivialities that will mean nothing when you're old. In the end all that will matter is who you helped and how deeply you cared
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Do every act of your life as if it were your ultimate.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Never give up. Go and nurture. Go and nurture audacious goals. Let your greatness blossom.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Ride your rainbow from end to end, enjoy each hue, seek ii'ts legend.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
What we do in life echoes in eternity. This is how greatness is made.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Make mistakes. Take chances. Be silly. Be imperfect. Trust yourself and follow your bliss.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Greatness only comes in two flavors
—  God and His people.
Nothing great ever happens overnight. Greatness takes time❤ #justsayin
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Humor makes a lasting impression of great moments
—  awkward or pleasant
An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.
— Benjamin Suulola
If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can only achieve GREATNESS when you pursue the things others are not willing to SACRIFICE for.
— Oscar Bimpong
Be like the sun
—  it does not look for the spotlight
When you born again you are stepped into greatness and it means you are in zone of Miracles.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Take a deep breathe and thanks for everything you have.
— Sharfaraz Ahmed
Dance to the beat of your own drum
—  whether the world likes your rhythmic movements or not.
When you're taught by great people whose milestone achievements has been noted, you could only expect greatness.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Virtues, talents and unique selling points are all what makes great people.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
We wish to be great but we tend to forget that it can be someone we helped attain greatness that God will use to take us to that place of authority and influence. If it doesn't pay today, surely it'll pay soon.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not shine on their friends alone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A candle is at its brightest in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Step by step a mountain is conquered.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t sell yourself short
—  you are your best asset.
Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There has never been any great tangible thing without any minute or great intangible thing. The great works we see were just ideas until they received the real energy which transforms ideas into real and tangible artifacts. When you conceive an idea, find its energy. A great idea is just like the camphor, it sublimes with time if it is not nurtured well
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do you want to do something great? Find something that is distinctively smaller! Do you want to do something extraordinary? Do something ordinary in a distinctive way! Do you want to espouse an unpopular cause? Find the neglected solution to the general problem. Do you want to be distinctively popular? Think of what is distinctively unpopular.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A star will shine in the midst of darkness.A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt.A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A man's rivals tell you how great he is.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The student asked the master,“Teacher, what should I do to become great?”the master replied:Succeed where others have failed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you look at extraordinary people look for scars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The strong overcome several trials.The determined overcome numerous trials.The resilient overcome many trials.The extraordinary overcome countless trials.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Few great things are achieved effortlessly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To go where no man has gone before, follow the steps of Jesus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wolves travel in packs, not in herds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Greatness awaits those who can rise from their greatest failures.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who strives for excellence strives for greatness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be your own hero.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions
— Osho Samuel Adetunji
The mind can perceive the impossible.The heart can endure the impossible.The soul can experience the impossible.The hands can do the impossible.The tongue can express the impossible.The eyes can discern the impossible.The ears can understand the impossible.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Great souls carry great burdens.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Inspire greatness in others and it will be easier to inspire greatness in yourself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As stars cannot help but sparkle, the great cannot help but shine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The great are like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they rise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest acts result from your greatest love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The price of greatness is exorbitant
—  only those rich in courage can afford it.
Fear is the greatest predator you encounter on your journey to greatness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The great move mountains
— the cowardly hide behind them.The extraordinary walk on water
Roses bloom whether you praise them or not.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone’s name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo