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| Förnuftet styr först efter att känslor och impulser har förlorat sin kraft. | Carlton Simon |
| Förnuftet är en hora som överlever genom att förställa sig, genom vältalighet och genom skamlöshet. | Emile M. Cioran (1911-) |
| In quiet places, reason abounds | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? | Artemus Ward (1834-1867) |
| Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice | Charles Mildmay |
| Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason | Frank Gelett Burgess |
| To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind | John Lyly (1554-1606) |
| Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought | Karl Jaspers (1883-) |
| There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. | Michael Gartner |
| He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave | William Drummond (1585-1649) |
| Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. | Antoine Rivarol |
| The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. | Doug Larson |
| I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. | Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) |
| Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun. | Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) |
| Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's | Welsh Proverb |
| The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. | James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
| Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Little boats should keep near shore | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Time heals what reason cannot | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Reason is the enemy of faith | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought | Karl Jaspers (1883-) |
| Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler. | Brand Blanshard |
| Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| Conceit causes more conversation than wit. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons | George Carlin (1937-) |
| If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) |
| Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind | John Lyly (1554-1606) |
| Reason should direct and appetite obey | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose to give the name of RADIUM. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Reason speaks and feeling bites | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| Once the people begin to reason, all is lost | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |