Quotes with reason

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  • George Santayana Habit is stronger than reason.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Joan Didion Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
    Faceboek (2012)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Baruch Spinoza He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Drummond He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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  • Bruce Springsteen Here everybody has a neighbor
    Everybody has a friend
    Everybody has a reason to begin again.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ashley Montagu Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Mann Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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