Paul Eldridge Quotes

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

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.

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

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

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.

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

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

Logic is no answer to passion.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

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

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

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.