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• Quote 3112

  The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 3029

  A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

  by: John Pierpont Morgan

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• Quote 2946

  The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2937

  Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2930

  All wealth is the product of labor.

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2922

  The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2921

  New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2916

  The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2905

  Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2902

  Some people read because they are too lazy to think

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2882

  Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2877

  First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2866

  The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2793

  To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic

  by: Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine

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• Quote 2734

  Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2731

  I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2668

  To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2651

  We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

  by: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

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• Quote 2603

  The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2580

  Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason

  by: Edward Coke

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• Quote 2505

  Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism

  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2501

  The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected

  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2423

  He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2402

  Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men

  by: Johannes Calvin

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• Quote 2352

  It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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