Plato Quotes, Pain Quotes, Reason Quotes

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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An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Longing Quotes , Reason Quotes

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Intuition Quotes , Reason Quotes

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without 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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Tired 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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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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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Excuse Quotes , Reason Quotes

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , May 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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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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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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Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Conflict Quotes , Reason Quotes

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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There Is Always Some Madness In Love. But There Is Also Always Some Reason In Madness.

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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Reason Quotes , Photograph Quotes

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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

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The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

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