272 Metaphors for reasoning

" "Your reasons ain't no good.

In comparison with reason (as the faculty of Ideas, the faculty of thinking the infinite) even the greatest thing that can be given in the sense-world appears small; reason is the absolutely great.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence.

A cold reason is all that he would leave to man,no consolation but what the mind can arrive at unaided, no knowledge but what can be reached by original scientific investigation.

If he did not banish the fancies crowding to overwhelm him, his patient's life, and probably his own reason as well, would be the penalty.

Man's reason, conscience, and affections are the only true revelation of his Maker."

" "I remember, holy father, that one great reason of displeasure at my son's marriage was distrust of the motive of the family which received him; yet here have these honest people suffered me to live on unmolested in prosperity, while they now first claim the affinity in my disgrace and ignominy!

But it never once occurred to her that the reason for this was her exhausted condition from loss of rest on the previous night.

The reason was the death of John Scott, the editor, and probably to a large extent the originator, of the magazine.

One reason for his state of mind was his positive knowledge of the death of Davis.

The third reason which she avowed to everybody, was simple excited curiosity for a look into a new world.

The reason for this coherency and consistency was the universal recognition and acceptance of religion as the one energizing and standardizing force in life, the particular kind of religion that then prevailed, and the organic power which this religion had established; that is to say, the Church as an operative institution.

Human reason is a humbug.

I know I was happy; and it seems to me that the chief reason of my joy was the new cap and the fact that my heart swelled and I was proud of myself.

A fifth reason why the South will not dissolve, is her weakness.

His reasons were his ambition for her, her youth.

As regards modern society, Darwin, Brinton, Hellwald, Bentham, and others have advocated or endorsed the view that the reason why such a horror of incestuous unions prevails, is that novelty is the chief stimulus to the sexual feelings, and that the familiarity of the same household breeds indifference.

But the real reason of the slight shadow that had fallen on my spirit was the vanished hawthorn.

If reason has been a considerable gainer, it must be confessed that taste has been somewhat a loser.

But let us not forget, meanwhile, that within its own sphere this same Human Reason is an apt conjuror, marshalling and deftly controlling the powers of the earth and air to a degree wonderful and full of interest.

Reason is king with me.

I vow, I never had my affections more tenderly awakened; nor do I remember an incident in my life, where the dissipated spirits to which my reason had been a bubble were so suddenly called home.

Nothing that I said to others about him was quite so bad as what you said to me; for you knew the real reason of your discarding him, and the reason was so bador so goodthat you could not even confide it to me, your natural confidant.

It needs must happen from hence that the Passion should often swell to such a Size as to burst the Heart which contains it, if Time did not make these Circumstances less strong and lively, so that Reason should become a more equal Match for the Passion, or if another Desire which becomes more present did not overpower them with a livelier Representation.

One reason was Father; the other reason was Mother.

272 Metaphors for  reasoning