We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
'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.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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.
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