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“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason”
Blaise Pascal
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one”
Benjamin Franklin
“You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
Mark Twain
“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”
Erma Bombeck
“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason”
Voltaire
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Rest in reason; move in passion”
Khalil Gibran
