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Reason Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of…
- Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason…
- There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
- So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there…
- And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot…
- Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.…
- And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of…
- I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.
- The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and…
- As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages.…
- And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected…
- For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these…
- The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
- You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette…
- They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the…
- Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
- People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
- Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of…
- Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were…
- Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the…
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