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“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
Jacques Benigne Bossuel Quotes |
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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.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“"I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder”
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Ayn Rand Quotes |
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“It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en
raisonner.]”
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais Quotes Source: Barbier de Seville (V, 4)
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“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (II, 21)
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“Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,”
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex Quotes Source: said to Lord Willoughby, Jan. 4, 1598-9
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“Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: Socrates (V)
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“He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and
he who dares not, is a slave.”
Sir William Drummond (2) Quotes Source: Academical Question (end of preface)
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“Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. II)
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“Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes Source: Works (III, p. 91), (ed. 1839)
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“I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
[Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (VI, 223)
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“You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I
endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."”
John Keats Quotes Source: Letters to Fanny Braune (VIII)
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“The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Fables (I, 10)
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“To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.”
John Locke Quotes Source: Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.
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“But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112)
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“Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 40)
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“Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 507)
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“All extremes does perfect reason flee,
And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
[Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,
Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Le Misanthrope (I, 1)
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“But it is not reason that governs love.
[Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Le Misanthrope (I, 1)
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