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Quote 3112
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.Showing Quotes on reason
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Quote 3029
A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.Showing Quotes on reason
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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 othersShowing Quotes on reason
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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 obeyedShowing Quotes on reason
Quote 2930
All wealth is the product of labor.Showing Quotes on reason
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Quote 2922
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their propertyShowing Quotes on reason
Quote 2921
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already commonShowing Quotes on reason
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Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodShowing Quotes on reason
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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 guidedShowing Quotes on reason
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Quote 2902
Some people read because they are too lazy to thinkShowing Quotes on reason
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 unfruitfulShowing Quotes on reason
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 believeShowing Quotes on reason
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Quote 2866
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idleShowing Quotes on reason
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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 angelicShowing Quotes on reason
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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.Showing Quotes on reason
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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 beShowing Quotes on reason
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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 eternityShowing Quotes on reason
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Quote 2651
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Showing Quotes on reason
Quote 2603
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reasonShowing Quotes on reason
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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 reasonShowing Quotes on reason
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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 vegetarianismShowing Quotes on reason
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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 respectedShowing Quotes on reason
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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 slaveShowing Quotes on reason
Quote 2402
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over menShowing Quotes on reason
Quote 2352
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of menShowing Quotes on reason
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