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Reason Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
- There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
- Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
- Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which…
- Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought…
- What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten…
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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
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- 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
- 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
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — 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… — David Attenborough