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Philosophical literature12 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Reason 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 · 1739The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. — David Hume · 1748If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. — David Hume · 1748Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of the Enlightenment. — Immanuel Kant · 1784All 12 quotes →Legal writing3 quotes
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. — Louis Brandeis · 1924Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. — Edward Coke · 1628How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. — Edward Coke · 1628Psychological literature2 quotes
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. — Carl Jung · 1933Religious literature2 quotes
Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either. — G.K. Chesterton · 1926Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Tragedy (play)2 quotes
Sure He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. — William Shakespeare · 1616Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles · 442 BCComedy (play)1 quote
Ask me no reason why I love you, for though
Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counselor. — William Shakespeare · 1602Dissenting opinion1 quote
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. — Louis Brandeis · 1924Epic1 quote
It's our wits that make us men. — Malcom Wallace · 1995Epic (film)1 quote
It's our wits that make us men. — Malcom Wallace · 1995Greek tragedy1 quote
Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles · 442 BCHistorical drama1 quote
It's our wits that make us men. — Malcom Wallace · 1995Historical drama (film)1 quote
It's our wits that make us men. — Malcom Wallace · 1995