Reason Quotes

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.

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.