The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.