Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Reason Quotes

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

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Pain Quotes , Reason Quotes

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 is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

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

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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Reason Quotes

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Reason Quotes , Said Quotes

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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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Reason Quotes , Should Quotes

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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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