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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Reason 1,538
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. Martin Luther Reason 212
Behind every Truth there is always a Lie Behind every Lie there is always a Reason and behind every Reason there is always a Person.... Shujoy Chowdhury Reason 190
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas Reason 173
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. Alexander Hamilton Reason 153
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers Anthony Burgess Reason 144
What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. William Shakespeare Reason 124
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. Miguel de Cervantes Reason 122
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. Immanuel Kant Reason 116
Art forms that appeal to leftists tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. Theodore Kaczynski Reason 115
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. Voltaire (Fran Reason 111
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. Delos Banning McKown Reason 110
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde Reason 105
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man Ayn Rand Reason 103
Men are blind in their own cause. Heywood Broun Reason 102
Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mahatma Gandhi Reason 102
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. Benjamin Franklin Reason 101
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde Reason 99
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. Roger Bacon Reason 97
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. Brian Moore Reason 96
Like two side to a coin there are two sides to life your reason and emotional facets. Ami Blackwelder Reason 95
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant Reason 94
Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason. John Dryden Reason 94
We are generally better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal Reason 94
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. Voltaire (Fran Reason 92
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. Thomas Paine Reason 90
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 Reason 90
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. John Wesley Reason 90
Reason should direct and appetite obey. Marcus Tullius Cicero Reason 90
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton Reason 88
No one ever excused his way to success. Dave Del Dotto Reason 87
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. Little Richard Reason 86
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser reason. William Shakespeare Reason 86
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Reason 85
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. Leo Tolstoy Reason 85
Reason over passion. Pierre Elliott Trudeau Reason 85
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. Friedrich Nietzsche Reason 84
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Reason 83
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. Criss Jami Reason 83
Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. Robert E. Lee Reason 82
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. James A. Froude Reason 81
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond Reason 81
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. G. K. Chesterton Reason 81
... and yet to say the truth reason and love keep little company together nowadays... William Shakespeare Reason 80
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. Steve Biko Reason 80
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Johann von Goethe Reason 80
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. Thomas Aquinas Reason 80
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being just as you areor at all events that I must try and become one. Henrik Ibsen Reason 79
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles Reason 79
I see no reason for recording the obvious. Edward Weston Reason 78

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