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.
Reason and freedom are incompatible with weakness.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
Reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just.
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
