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  • Aaron Hill Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
    Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
    And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.
    Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Aaron Hill Reason gains all people by compelling none.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Joseph Roux Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • William Allen White Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Arthur Keith Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • John Dryden Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Bertrand Russell Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Jonathan Swift Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ayn Rand Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Martin Luther Reason is the enemy of faith.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Antoine Rivarol Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • C. S. Lewis Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Hegel Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
    Hegel
     
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Josh Billings Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau Reason over passion.
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau
     
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