Mason Cooley Quotes

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

I've tried to be graceful and I've tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Love is the only rational act.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Ugliness does not sell.

Sense will always have attractions for me.