Rita Mae Brown Quotes

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

He that cannot reason is a fool.