Reasoning Quotes (page 2)

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• feeling
• thoughts
• thinking

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions. Erich Fromm

• giving
• struggle
• power

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have. Tobias Wolff

• humanity
• mother
• leaving

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers. Jodi Picoult

• god
• gift
• manly

Reason is God's crowning gift to a man... Sophocles

• time
• eyes
• dark

Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness. Samuel Johnson

• passion
• reasonable
• reasonably

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume

• deny
• denying
• automatic

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Ayn Rand

• old
• have faith
• god

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. Friedrich Nietzsche

• investigator
• reasonable
• omniscience

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. Immanuel Kant

• wild
• small
• imagination

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience. Charlotte Bronte

• love
• deciding
• decidedly

Reason is not what decides love. Moliere

• look
• being used
• critically

Reason can be used only when looking critically back. Peter D. Mitchell

• alone
• strong
• age

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. John Dryden

• faith
• soul
• hand

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. John Donne

• reasonableness
• reasons
• servant

Reason is the servant of instinct. Clarence Day