Source: Cranford (1851–3), Ch. 14
"Evensong", line 25, in Songs of Two Worlds: Third series (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875), p. 23.
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
"The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review, LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443, reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79-86
1890s
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 326)
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge (September 1843)
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 15e
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 20, p. 263
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason”
X, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.
Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.
