Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Goethe.
Reason can no more influence the will and operate as a motive, than the eyes, which show a man his road, can enable him to move from place to place, or than a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind. Whately.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable 25 than to cease reasoning on things above reason. Sir P. Sidney.
Reason gains all men by compelling none. Aaron Hill.
Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose. Schiller.
Reason has only to do with the becoming, the living; but understanding with the become, the already fixed, that it may make use of it. Goethe.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim—nay, blind—thou art in preventing them! Sir P. Sidney.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it 30 makes; its usefulness takes the place of beauty. Joubert.
Reason is a historian, but the passions are the actors. Rivarol.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. Swift.