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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. |
| by George Washington |
| We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. |
| by Bolingbroke |
| Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. |
| by Cicero |
| Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. |
| by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. |
| by Thomas Carlyle |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. |
| by Aristotle |
| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. |
| by John Harrington |
| The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. |
| by Elbert Hubbard |
| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
| by Jean La Bruyere |
| We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. |
| by Jacques Maritain |
| There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. |
| by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. |
| by Baruch Spinoza |
| Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. |
| by Voltaire |
| Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. |
| by Lord Chesterfield |
| The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy. |
| by Grenville |
| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. |
| by Heinrich Heine |
| Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. |
| by Thomas Jefferson |
| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. |
| by Albert Pike |
| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. |
| by Douglas MacArthur |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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