1,806 Quotes About Reason



  • Author David Hume
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    Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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  • Author Pierre Hadot
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    ...politics cannot be separated from the great human and cosmic perspectives That are opened up for us by our recognition of a transcendent universality - Reason or Nature - which, by means of its harmony with itself, founds both people’s love for one another and their love for that Whole of which they are the part.

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