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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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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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The law is reason, free from passion.
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Law is mind without reason.
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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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Nothing happens without a reason.
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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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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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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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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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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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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
