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Reason Quotes by George Santayana
- Habit is stronger than reason.
- Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
- Docility is the observable half of reason.
- Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
- Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
- Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light…
- The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
- Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
- When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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