Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reason is the servant of instinct.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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.
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.