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Reason Quotes by Plato
- Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible…
- No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
- In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we…
- Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
- Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
- Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and…
- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
- Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to…
- That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of…
- The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone…
- [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a…
- for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself,…
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