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Reason Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and…
- Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
- The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
- For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of…
- The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a…
- The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's…
- ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be…
- Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
- Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon…
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
- People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it
More Reason Quotes
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- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and 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… — 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… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
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- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough