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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad
