You know, my friends, with wha...

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

~Omar Khayyam~

Where I cannot satisfy my reas...

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

~Sir Thomas Browne~

When the human mind exists in ...

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

~Loren Eiseley~

We do not fight for the real b...

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.

~Stephen Vincent Benet~

Too much sensibility creates u...

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

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand~

To see what is in front of one...

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

~George Orwell~

The time is comin' whin not mo...

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

~Finley Peter Dunne~

The person who is master of th...

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

~Cyril Connolly~

The only business of the head ...

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

~William Butler Yeats~

The man who is master of his p...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

~Cyril Connolly~

The last advance of reason is ...

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

~Blaise Pascal~

The feast of reason and the fl...

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

~Alexander Pope~

The difference between the rea...

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

~John Donne~

Strong reasons make strong act...

Strong reasons make strong actions.

~William Shakespeare~

Reason is the wise man's guide...

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

~Welsh Proverbs~

Reason is the mistress and que...

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

~Cicero~

Reason is like an officer when...

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.

~Jalal-Uddin Rumi~

Reason is God's gift, but so a...

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

~Cardinal Newman~

Reason is an emotion for the s...

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

~Heathcote Williams~

Reason is a whore, surviving b...

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

~E. M. Cioran~