"In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration."
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"Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason."
"See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try."
"We live not according to reason, but according to fashion."
"Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering."
"To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition."
"The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning."
"You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth."
"Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control."
"One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker."
"If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her."
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion."
"I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person."
"Love has nothing to do with good reasons."
"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day."
"How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle."
"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason."
"La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best."
"In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason."