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Reason Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
- Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
- We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult…
- Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
- In what we really understand, we reason but little.
- Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
- The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an…
- One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon…
- In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a…
- To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
- The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for…
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