William Shakespeare Quotes, Past Quotes, Reason Quotes

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

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

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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

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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 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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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

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

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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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There is nothing higher than reason.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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

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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

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

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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

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

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