| 7989 | Seek salvation in the wisdom of reason [Anon (Bhag)] |
| 362 | The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument [Plato] |
| 623 | It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience [Aristotle] |
| 2801 | Intelligence which looks ahead is a natural master, while bodily strength is a natural slave [Aristotle] |
| 501 | Reason is a more powerful persuader than gold [Democritus (attr)] |
| 23248 | Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M] |
| 2857 | Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes] |
| 6222 | If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it [Cumberland] |
| 12526 | Opposition to reason is mad [Locke] |
| 12963 | Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths [Leibniz] |
| 3807 | Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions [Hume] |
| 6912 | For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach] |
| 2896 | I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche] |
| 4530 | Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal [Nietzsche] |
| 20379 | Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality [Nietzsche] |
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 18543 | Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction? [Scruton] |