I am never upset for the reason I think.

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

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Let reason govern desire.

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

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

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

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.

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Everyone has his reasons.

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.

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

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

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

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

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

Reason is emotion for the sexless.

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