William Shakespeare on Reason
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“Every why hath a wherefore.”
“Strong reasons make strong actions.”
“Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.”
“I have no other but a woman's reason I think him so because I think him so.”
“But since the affairs of men rest still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”
“Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.”
“Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.”
“His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”