Quotes with reason

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  • Auberon Herbert If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
    The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Samuel Butler If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Blaise Pascal Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Assata Shakur Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bernard Crick In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Audre Lorde In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Cass Sunstein In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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  • Nathanael Emmons Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Intuition is reason in a hurry.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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