Reason proverbs

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◆ The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Humor is reason gone mad.

- Groucho Marx99

◆ That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

- Andrew Solomon99

◆ I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

- Khaled Hosseini99

◆ Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

- George Carlin99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99