#reason

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

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So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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