For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas Paine

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Jerry Garcia

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.
Jane Austen