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Reason Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
- The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.
- The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out…
- The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic…
- I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make…
- People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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