Great Throughts Treasury

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Jean Philippe Rameau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Instinct | Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Andrew Ramsay, fully Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Jean-François Regnard

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Hate | Love | Reason | Wisdom |

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Nothing | Reason | Rule | Wisdom |

Noah benShea

Is it wise to love without reason? The world... was not created as an act of reason but as an act of love. And the reason for love is not reason.

Love | Reason | Wisdom | Wise | World |

Frederic Saunders

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; an if the heart be a lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

Beauty | Contradiction | Crime | Heart | Little | Silence | Soul | Wisdom | Beauty |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a great mistake of many ardent students that they trust too much to their books, and do not draw from their own resources - forgetting that of all sophists our own reason is that which abuses us least.

Books | Mistake | Reason | Trust | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No more by the law of reason than by the law of nature can anything occur without a cause.

Cause | Law | Nature | Reason | Wisdom |

Sunday School Times NULL

Faith is the revealer of knowledge; it is the office of reason to defend that knowledge and to preserve it pure. Independent knowledge - the knowledge that comes not though faith - whether it be of things earthly or things heavenly, never can be ours.

Faith | Knowledge | Office | Reason | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Body | Business | Counsel | Lust | Reason | Soul | Wisdom | Business |