| Time heals what reason cannot. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
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AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. -- Baruch Spinoza |
| Author:
Spinoza, BaruchEra:
1632 |
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| The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. -- Thomas B. Macaulay |
| Author:
Macaulay, Thomas B.Era:
1800 |
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| The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| 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. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| 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. -- Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Author:
Da Vinci, LeonardoEra:
1452 |
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| reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. -- George Washington |
| Author:
Washington, GeorgeEra:
1732 |
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| reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. -- William Cowper |
| Author:
Cowper, WilliamEra:
1731 |
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| 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. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. -- Joseph Addison |
| Author:
Addison, JosephEra:
1672 |
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| 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. -- Douglas MacArthur |
| Author:
MacArthur, DouglasEra:
1880 |
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| Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. -- Elbert Hubbard |
| Author:
Hubbard, ElbertEra:
1856 |
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| 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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. -- Bolingbroke |
| Author:
BolingbrokeEra:
1678 |
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| What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen |
| Author:
Allen, WoodyEra:
1935 |
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| Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. -- John Harrington |
| Author:
Harrington, JohnEra:
1561 |
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