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Reason is also choice. -- John Milton
Passion cooks. Reason cleans. -- Mason Cooley
Reason is intuition's servant. -- Albert Einstein
Reason also is choice. -- John Milton
Reason is 6/7 of treason. -- James Thurber
Reason is not always reasonable -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Reason speaks and feeling bites -- Plutarch
Force shites upon Reason's Back. -- Benjamin Franklin
100% Reason to remember the name. -- Fort Minor
Reason is nothing without imagination. -- Rene Descartes
Reason deceives us; conscience, never. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reason, you'll always be half-blind. -- Marguerite Porete
Reason is the enemy of faith. -- Martin Luther
What is virtue? Reason in practice. -- Joseph Chenier
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. -- Albert Pike
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. -- Euripides
Reason should direct, and appetite obey. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. -- Elbert Hubbard
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. -- Pythagoras
Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians. -- Libba Bray
Reason is simply a vast tautology. -- J. M. Coetzee
Reason is the servant of instinct. -- Clarence Day
Reason is emotion for the sexless. -- Heathcote Williams
Reason and love are sworn enemies. -- Pierre Corneille
Reason is the illusion of reality -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Reason and speech we onely bring. -- George Herbert
Reason is not what decides love. -- Moliere
Reason is the slave of passion. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. -- Alexander Pope
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. -- Alfred de Musset
Reason and right give the quickest despatch. -- Owen Feltham
Reason gains all people by compelling none. -- Aaron Hill
Reason dies collapsing under its own load. -- Bill Mallonee
Reason is the Soul of the Law. -- Thomas Hobbes
Reason is the life of the law. -- Edward Coke
Reason should be destroyed in all Christians. -- Martin Luther
Reason is the most active human faculty. -- Mary Baker Eddy
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born. -- Sri Aurobindo
Reason and truth will prevail at last -- Samuel Johnson
Reason is God's crowning gift to man. -- Sophocles
Reason is a poor hand at prophecies. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong. -- Norm MacDonald
Reason deceives us more often than does nature. -- Luc de Clapiers
Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action. -- Donald Calne
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em. -- Margaret Deland
Think before you act. Reason before you react. -- Kemi Sogunle
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. -- Rumi
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze. -- Aime Cesaire
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. -- Paul Auster
Reason cannot break out of its own loop. -- Mason Cooley
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. -- John Dryden
Reason can never prove the existence of God. -- Immanuel Kant
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. -- Bette Howland
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. -- Frank Herbert
Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep. -- Rebecca West
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors. -- Antoine Rivarol
Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord. -- Nichiren
Reason can be used only when looking critically back. -- Peter D. Mitchell
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. -- Antoine Rivarol
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.. -- Tacitus
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion. -- Pierre Trudeau
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. -- Tacitus
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold. -- Democritus
Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love -- Sam Harris
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. -- John Donne
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything. -- John Locke
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. -- Domenico Cieri
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. -- Jonathan Swift
Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song. -- Joseph de Maistre
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. -- Thomas Aquinas
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. -- Arthur Keith
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. -- Rumi
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. -- Aristotle
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. -- Voltaire
Time makes more converts than reason. -- Thomas Paine
He that cannot reason is a fool. -- Andrew Carnegie
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. -- Albert Einstein
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. -- Karl Marx
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. -- Thomas Paine
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. -- Thomas Hobbes
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. -- Martin Luther
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best. -- Jean de La Fontaine
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. -- Ayn Rand
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
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. -- Catharine Beecher
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. -- John Milton
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. -- David Hume
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God. -- Martin Luther
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! -- William Blake
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -- Marilyn Monroe
The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce. -- John Eliot
Mathematics is the music of reason. -- James Joseph Sylvester
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. -- Blaise Pascal
A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason. -- Jack Hanna
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -- Albert Einstein
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. -- Gena Lee Nolin
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. -- Immanuel Kant
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -- Thomas Jefferson
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Petrarch
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. -- Stephen Hawking
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. -- Mother Teresa
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. -- Tecumseh
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. -- Ben Shapiro
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. -- David Icke
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. -- Ram Dass

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