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1. “A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.”

J.P. Morgan

Reason, Truth, Perception, Action, Motivation

2. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

J.P. Morgan

Reason, Truth, Decision, Motivation, Perception

3. “Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.”

Charles Lamb

Desire, Reason, Motivation, Survival, Nature

4. “The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”

Pythagoras

Soul, Intelligence, Reason, Passion, Wisdom

5. “Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

Pythagoras

Reason, Wisdom, Mortality, Eternity, Truth

6. “Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

Pythagoras

Numbers, Reason, Wisdom, Knowledge, Logic

7. “It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”

Democritus

Desire, Control, Reason, Discipline, Strength

8. “Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”

Democritus

Reason, Persuasion, Wealth, Logic, Wisdom

9. “For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.”

Plutarch

Fortune, Adversity, Reason, Character, Resilience

10. “It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

Plutarch

Hunger, Necessity, Reason, Struggle, Reality

11. “Reason speaks and feeling bites.”

Plutarch

Reason, Emotion, Thought, Judgment, Balance

12. “The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.”

Plutarch

Faith, Balance, Reason, Piety, Superstition

13. “Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.”

Plutarch

Silence, Wisdom, Reason, Fools, Patience

14. “A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.”

Plutarch

Regret, Conviction, Integrity, Reason, Decision

15. “If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. The reality is that reason is just one of the drivers of our decisions, and often the smallest one.”

Scott Adams

Reason, Decision, Emotion, Psychology, Perspective

16. “Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”

Thomas Merton

Faith, Reason, Wisdom, Belief, Philosophy

17. “It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being “reasonable” that we become ourselves, unreasonable.”

Thomas Merton

Reason, Perspective, Human Nature, Paradox, Behavior

18. “We have been fashioned, in all our perfection, each according to his own nature, and all our natures ordered and harmonized together, that man’s reason and his love might fit in this one last element, this God-given key to the meaning of the whole.”

Thomas Merton

Perfection, Nature, Reason, Love, Divine Order

19. “Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.”

Anton Chekhov

Love, Reason, Emotion, Paradox, Passion

20. “Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given.”

Anton Chekhov

Creativity, Reason, Progress, Intelligence, Potential

21. “A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!”

Anton Chekhov

Emotion, Passion, Suffering, Forgiveness, Reason

22. “Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.”

Herbert Spencer

Reason, Instinct, Feelings, Power, Rationality

23. “Love of the head has doubtless more intelligence than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It knows itself too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made by sheer force of thought.”

Stendhal

Love, Reason, Passion, Emotion, Reflection

24. “The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”

Stendhal

Passion, Reason, Argument, Music, Emotion

25. “Though by means of reason he can lead a life which will not bring regrets, yet there resides in this imperfect creature, man, a certain power that makes for badness, because he possesses a mind which is easily moved to perversity.”

Seneca

Human Nature, Reason, Morality, Temptation, Self-Awareness

26. “I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.”

Emile Zola

Life, Will, Force, Reason, Existence

27. “I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.”

Emile Zola

Humanity, Science, Progress, Truth, Reason