Quotes with reason

Quotes 621 till 640 of 659.

  • Albert Camus Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Aldous Huxley Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Jay Chapman Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • John Milton Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Tom Hopkins Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Alexander Pope Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bill Evans Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Wayne Dyer You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Billy Dee Williams You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • S. I. Hayakawa You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Denis Waitley You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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