Alfred de Musset Quotes

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Alfred de Musset

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Singing

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Eggs

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Illness
  • Cure
  • Prevent

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

  

  Epictetus
  • Reason
  • Shape
  • Disorder

• The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Today
  • Desire
  • Reason

• You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Brain

• There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.

  

  Prince
  • End
  • Rain
  • Rainbow

• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • Reality
  • Health

• Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'

  

  Ian Axel
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Reason
  • Cure
  • Illusions