Great Throughts Treasury

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Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon

The media are far more powerful than the President in creating public awareness and shaping public opinion, for the simple reason that the media always have the last word.

Awareness | Opinion | Public | Reason | Wisdom | Awareness |

Publius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Money | Reason | Wisdom |

Roscoe Pound, fully Nathan Roscoe Pound

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Experience | Law | Reason | Wisdom |

Francis Quarles

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Little | Reason | Wisdom | World | Govern |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only to listen too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body, which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Body | Conscience | Instinct | Man | Nature | Reason | Right | Soul | Wisdom | Afraid |

John Powell, fully Sir John Powell

Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.

Law | Nothing | Reason | Wisdom |

Jean Philippe Rameau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Instinct | Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Andrew Ramsay, fully Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Jean-François Regnard

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Hate | Love | Reason | Wisdom |

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Nothing | Reason | Rule | Wisdom |

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Capitalism | Civilization | Logic | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Noah benShea

Is it wise to love without reason? The world... was not created as an act of reason but as an act of love. And the reason for love is not reason.

Love | Reason | Wisdom | Wise | World |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a great mistake of many ardent students that they trust too much to their books, and do not draw from their own resources - forgetting that of all sophists our own reason is that which abuses us least.

Books | Mistake | Reason | Trust | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves, from the rulers of the State downwards. To form citizens is not the work of a day; and in order to have men it is necessary to educate them when they are children.

Children | Day | Liberty | Men | Need | Nothing | Order | Patriotism | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wisdom | Work |