Lloyd Alexander Quotes

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

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.

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

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

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

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

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

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

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.