Aristotle Quotes, Slave Quotes, Reason Quotes

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Taste Quotes , Reason Quotes

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Faults Quotes , Reason Quotes

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Reason Quotes

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Lessons Quotes , Reason Quotes

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Reason Quotes , Rings Quotes

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Reason Quotes

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

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