Reason Quotes

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by… — Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by… — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has… — Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in… — Aristotle
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called… — Billie Joe Armstrong
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that. — Lance Armstrong
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;… — Mary Astell
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste,… — David Attenborough
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. — David Attenborough
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you… — Margaret Atwood
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some… — Saint Augustine
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against… — Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius

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