Reason Quotes

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

There are many reasons why we don’t tell people the truth. Maybe we’re not brave enough. Maybe we’re afraid to lose someone by telling the truth. Maybe all we want for the person we love is to be happy – with or without us.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.