Quotes with non-reason

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  • C. S. Lewis An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Adam Clarke And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Adam Weishaupt And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Bill Bruford And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George William Curtis Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Billy Martin Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Saul Bellow Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Beeban Kidron Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Noam Chomsky As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Martin Luther King At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Robert M. Lindner Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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