Reason Quotes
13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
— Piers Anthony
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
— Fiona Apple
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who…
— Fiona Apple
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
— Fiona Apple
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's…
— Louis Aragon
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
— Louis Aragon
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
— Ken Olsen
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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
— Marcus Aurelius
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a…
— Bertrand Russell
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
— Bertrand Russell
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
— Richard Dawkins
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
— Penn Jillette
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a…
— Watchman Nee
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the…
— Alice Miller
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No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will…
— Richard G. Scott
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