„Humiliate the reason and distort the soul…“

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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„The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.“
— Paulo Coelho
„And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason that the world gives. For not in that way does the soul of a philosopher reason. …Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been thus nurtured and has had these pursuits, will at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away by the winds and be nowhere and nothing.“
— Socrates
„Reason, sometimes, seems to me to be the faculty our soul possesses of understanding nothing about our body!“
— Paul Valéry
„The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.“
— Aristotle