In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.[Aucune cause ne justifie la mort de l’innocent.]
To live in order to reason or to reason in order to live; there is the question.
The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reins.
Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
And men, whose reason long was blind, from cells of madness unconfined, oft lose whole years of darker mind.
