“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably”
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“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably”
“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men”
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men”
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave”
“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”
“Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism”
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason”
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason”
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”
“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”
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”
“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”
“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”
“Some people read because they are too lazy to think”
“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”
“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”