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Reason Quotes by Andre Gide
- Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do…
- What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there…
- Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to…
- Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Reason Quotes
- 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… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- 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