Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

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

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

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

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.