#reason

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. ↗

— Aristotle

#allow #base #belongs #both #does

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. ↗

— Aristotle

#blaze #day #evident #eyes #most

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. ↗

— Aristotle

#apprehend #enough #nature #participates #reason

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#called #escape #first #first time #home

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#around #closely #effectively #function #helps

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#intuition #invention #observation #perceiving #reasoning

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#ownership #reasonable #regarding #regulations #weapons

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#characters #day #different #different reasons #everybody

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers