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«With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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«While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Cheerfulness,
Peace
| Keywords:
behave, cheerful, cheerfulness, justified, rate, reasonable, Reasonable man, troubles
«There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
egotism, exploiting, First to, invert, inverted, prevents, reasonable, Reasonable man, reticence, reticences
«The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach»
Author: Sophocles
| About:
Education,
Instinct,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
astray, reasonable, Reasonable man
«The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love,
Religion,
War
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«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Progress,
Reason,
World
| Keywords:
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«The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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cult, cults, Cult of the, establish, reasonable, Reasonable man, The Cult
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