reason (n.)
- accomplishment
- account
- admissibility
- aim
- air
- ambition
- answer
- antecedent
- apologia
- apology
- argument
- aspiration
- balance
- bargain
- basis
- brain
- call
- calling
- canvass
- case
- cause
- clarification
- collect
- conception
- consideration
- coolness
- counsel
- cracking
- debate
- decipherment
- decoding
- deduction
- defence
- demonstration
- demythologization
- denouement
- determinant
- determination
- discourse
- disentanglement
- editing
- elucidation
- emendation
- end
- enlightenment
- esprit
- estimate
- excuse
- exegesis
- exemplification
- explanation
- explication
- exposition
- expounding
- extract
- fetch
- find
- finding
- fitting
- foundation
- gather
- goal
- ground
- grounds
- handle
- head
- headpiece
- ideal
- illumination
- illustration
- induction
- inference
- insight
- inspiration
- intellect
- intellection
- intelligence
- intention
- interpretation
- issue
- judgement
- justification
- justness
- light
- lodestar
- logic
- logicality
- logicalness
- lucidity
- mainspring
- marbles
- matter
- mens
- mentality
- mind
- motive
- normalcy
- normality
- nous
- object
- objective
- occasion
- outcome
- palaver
- parley
- perspicacity
- philosophy
- plausibility
- plea
- pleading
- point
- powwow
- practicality
- pretense
- pretext
- principle
- proof
- pros
- psyche
- purpose
- rap
- ratio
- ratiocination
- rational
- rationale
- rationalism
- rationality
- rationalization
- reasonableness
- reasoning
- refutation
- resolution
- resolving
- result
- review
- right
- sake
- saneness
- sanity
- score
- sense
- senses
- sensibleness
- simplification
- smarts
- soberness
- sobriety
- solution
- solving
- sophistry
- soundness
- source
- spring
- study
- substance
- talk
- think
- treat
- understanding
- untangling
- upshot
- urge
- vindication
- vocation
- warrant
- wherefore
- wholesomeness
- why
- wit
- working
reason (v.)
- account
- aim
- air
- ambition
- analyze
- answer
- balance
- bargain
- brain
- calculate
- call
- canvass
- case
- cause
- cerebrate
- cogitate
- collect
- collogue
- conceive
- conceptualize
- conclude
- confer
- consider
- consult
- controvert
- convince
- counsel
- cracking
- debate
- deduce
- deliberate
- derive
- discourse
- discuss
- dissuade
- end
- estimate
- examine
- excuse
- extract
- fetch
- find
- gather
- generalize
- glean
- ground
- handle
- head
- hypothesize
- ideate
- induce
- infer
- investigate
- issue
- light
- matter
- mind
- negotiate
- object
- occasion
- palaver
- parley
- persuade
- philosophize
- point
- powwow
- proof
- pros
- purpose
- rap
- rationalize
- reckon
- reflect
- result
- review
- right
- sake
- score
- sense
- sift
- source
- speculate
- spring
- study
- syllogize
- talk
- theorize
- think
- treat
- urge
- ventilate
- warrant
- wit
I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
Still govern thou my song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give,
And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
A beast, that wants discourse of reason.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The power, the beauty, and the majesty
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,
Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,
Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished;
They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
'T is a fault to Heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Still govern thou my song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Neither rhyme nor reason.
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
The insane root
That takes the reason prisoner.
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Smiles from reason flow,
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and questions deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passion in his craft of will.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny:
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.
Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.
