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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Jean Dubuffet

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of reason, or give up existence.

Friedrich Engels

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Maurice Barres

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

Jean Genet

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Jeremy Collier

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jeremy Collier

We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

Jerry Brown

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who just can’t handle life because they’ve thrown away too much of their reason.

Frederick Lenz

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Friedrich August von Hayek

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Mary Russell Mitford

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