Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
'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 has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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.