Have courage to use your own reason!
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Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Reason does not know the interests of the heart.
Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.
Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
The passions have taught men reason.
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Reason misleads us more often than nature.
The contempt of our nature is an error of our reason.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.
The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.
The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.
Reason, not age, finds wisdom.
To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.
That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.
Let your desires be governed by reason.
Man is a sociable, no less than a reasonable being.
Reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning.
Reason 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.
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