The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is also contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
True virtue is nothing else but living in accordance with reason.
There is one thing no man can do, and that is to get a woman to listen to reason. Somehow or other, they don’t seem to have any kind of sense.
There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom.
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living. That’s why crime always finds lawyers, and innocence only rarely.
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
