Quotes on Reason

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get 'em!

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

People always clap for the wrong reasons.