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Reason Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against…
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
- Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
- Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
- One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by…
- He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life…
- "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel…
- A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
- If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
- Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
- All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are…
- Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments…
- If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the…
- I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in…
- Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the…
- But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault…
- If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then also the reason…
- Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where…
- To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
- What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has…
- A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for…
- If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
- Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
- For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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
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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