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Reason Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not,…
- Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
- Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
- It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The…
- Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common…
- Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
- As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth,…
- Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
- Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited,…
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
- 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