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Reason Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see…
- Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more…
- Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
- Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by…
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then…
- Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
- People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
- The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
- He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually…
- Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has…
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