Reason Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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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.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Law is mind without reason.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Nothing happens without a reason.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
