Quotes with non-reason

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  • Erich Fromm Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Anne Brontë Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Let reason govern desire.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • George Washington Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bruce Lee Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Louise Erdrich Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Hannah Arendt Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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