Reason Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

— Marcus Aurelius

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

— Marcus Aurelius

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

— Marcus Aurelius

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

— Marcus Aurelius

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

“Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else…

— Marcus Aurelius

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either…

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today…

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From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a…

— Marcus Aurelius

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

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“What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?”

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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost…

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as…

— Marcus Aurelius

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the…

— Marcus Aurelius

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a…

— Marcus Aurelius

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing…

— Marcus Aurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a…

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to…

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Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make…

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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness…

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If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all…

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A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating…

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If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth…

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Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,…

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All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else.…

— Marcus Aurelius

What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to…

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If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then…

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Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou…

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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the…

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He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

— Marcus Aurelius

Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to…

— Marcus Aurelius