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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Maurice Maeterlinck

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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
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John Wesley

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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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Gaius C. Gallus

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
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Austin O'Malley

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Aaron Hill

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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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William Allen White

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

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Bertrand Russell

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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Jonathan Swift

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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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E. M. Cioran

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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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Martin Luther

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Reason is emotion for the sexless.
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Heathcote Williams

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Antoine Rivarol

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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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William Warburton

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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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Welsh Proverb

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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
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Nicola Abbagnano

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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Italian Proverb

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Reason over passion.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Marcus T. Cicero

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Nicholas Boileau

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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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William Shakespeare

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Sophocles

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The more you reason the less you create.
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Raymond Chandler

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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William Butler Yeats

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun