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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Author: Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Author: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.67 | Fav

The more you reason the less you create.

Author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 103 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Reason is not what decides love.

Author: Moliere (1622 - 1673) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Author: William Penn (1644 - 1718) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 137 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I auditioned for six months, twice a week. The reason I kept going back was because Adrian was literally fighting for me to get the role.

Author: Elizabeth Pena (1959) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 174 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Author: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 172 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us.

Author: John Pearson ( 1612 - 1686) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Author: Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 199 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Author: Alexandra Paul (1963) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 306 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 137 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master, for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 127 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 141 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

Author: Talcott Parsons (1902 - 1979) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Author: Talcott Parsons (1902 - 1979) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 132 | Rank: 0 | Fav

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

Author: Joe Pantoliano (1951) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 129 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies rather than as your civic duty is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Author: Tom G. Palmer (1956) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Author: Tom G. Palmer (1956) | Theme: Reason | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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