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Reason Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and…
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
- Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while…
- Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
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