Heaviest Things

“The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is because you have decisions to make and you are not making them.”
--Unknown

Dumbed-down Education

“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans; anything except reason.”
--Thomas Sowell

Peaceful Reason

“Don’t ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I have forgotten how to be violent.”
--Unknown

Morals Creation

“It is not our intellect that created our morals; rather, human interactions governed by our morals make possible the growth of reason and those capabilities associated with it.”
--F. A. Hayek

One Good Reason

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
--Mary Frances Berry

Power Play

“Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”
--Woodrow Wilson

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The Future Undisturbed

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Most Formidable Weapon

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”
--Thomas Paine

Consult the Past

“Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

Address Problems

“The reason people do not want to see or address problems is because it often takes time and effort to fix them and most of us are lazy.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Why People Fail

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Reason and Inquiry

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Mass Psychosis

“The totalitarian systems represent a kind of collective psychosis. Whether gradually or suddenly, reason and common human decency are no longer possible in such a system: there is only a pervasive atmosphere of terror, and a projection of “the enemy,” imagined to be “in our midst.” Thus society turns on itself, urged on by the ruling authorities.”
--Joost Meerloo

Psychic Epidemics

“It is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes.”
--Carl Jung

Lost Your Mind

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
--Anton Chekhov

No Reason

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.” --Voltaire

Reason Lost

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
--Paulo Coelho

Parasitic Thinking

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
--Ayn Rand

Unreasonable Heart

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
--Mark Twain

Reason Not

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
--George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)