Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”

“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”

“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.”

“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”

“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

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

“Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.”

“The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are given by Instinct.”

“These glorious things - words - are man's right alone. Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.”

“Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.”

“God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.”

“By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.”

“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”

“The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason. Thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be the monarch of a little world? command thyself.”

“Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.”

“A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without taking the life.”

“There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things. It is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance, which have, in fact, such extensive consequences.”

“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”