Ovid Quotes, Blind Quotes, Reason Quotes

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

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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

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Reason Quotes

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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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

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Tags : A. J. Hartley Quotes , Killing Quotes , Reason Quotes

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Virtue Quotes , Reason Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Reason Quotes , Violent Quotes

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Reason Quotes

Conscience is the pulse of reason

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Pulse Quotes , Reason Quotes

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Reason Quotes , Poet Quotes

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

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

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

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Reason Quotes , Lost Quotes

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , People Quotes , Reason Quotes

Reason is intuition's servant.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Intuition Quotes , Reason Quotes

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

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Tags : Abhishek Bachchan Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Reason Quotes