Short quotations about, reason - Page 4

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Where so many hours have been spent…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Where so many hours have been spent…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Alexander Hamilton

Why has government been instituted …

15 Feb , 2011  

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)

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Artemus Ward

Why is this thus? What is the reaso…

15 Feb , 2011  

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Great short quote and quotation by: Artemus Ward , US humorist (1834 – 1867)

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Why is this thus? What is the reaso…

15 Feb , 2011  

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Great short quote and quotation by: Artemus Ward , US humorist (1834 – 1867)

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With reasonable men I will reason; …

15 Feb , 2011  

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. Great short quote and quotation by: William Lloyd Garrison , US abolitionist & editor (1805 – 1879)

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William Lloyd Garrison

With reasonable men, I will reason;…

15 Feb , 2011  

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. Great short quote and quotation by: William Lloyd Garrison , US abolitionist & editor (1805 – 1879)

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Robert Southey

Would you who judge of the lawfulne…

19 Aug , 2010  

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to […]

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From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

You know, my Friends, with what a b…

27 Apr , 2010  

You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For “Is” and “Is-not” though with Rule and LineAnd “Up-and-down” by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never […]

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Kahlil Gibran

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefie…

11 Jan , 2010  

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

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Lynn White, Jr

[W]e shall continue to have a worse…

11 Jan , 2010  

[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. Great short quote and quotation by: Lynn White, Jr., “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”, Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207. ,

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