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Reason Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths…
- It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and…
- Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call…
- I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason,…
- But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us…
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
- ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as…
- Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.
- The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source;…
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
More Reason Quotes
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- 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
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- 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