Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Men Quotes, Reason Quotes

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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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

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What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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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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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

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The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

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If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

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Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

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There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

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