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Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.”

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Anton Chekhov, born on January 29, 1860, was a prominent Russian physician and short story writer. His works are renowned for their profound psychological insights and critical portrayal of social realities. Chekhov's short stories have had a profound impact on literature both in Russia and around the world. more

“A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.”

Men Believe Doe Light Spirit Grows Understanding Dark Opinion Written Lows Angry Neighbor Tempted Disdain Incline Dogmatism Sunbeams

Book:The Improvement of the Mind

Source: The Improvement of the Mind

“Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.”

Reason Pride Degrees Good Humor

Author:Isaac Watts

“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

Wells May Doe Lying Water Steps Logic Metaphor

Author:Isaac Watts

“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”

War Individual Nations Peace Civil War Grants Anti War Antiwar American Civil War Transgression

Book:Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.”

Helping Judging Logic Disguise

Book:Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

Source: Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

“Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.”

Opinion Written Sunbeams Positiveness

Author:Isaac Watts

“Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

Men Believe Persons Parent Born Opinion Principles Prejudice Ancestor Falsehood Estates Inheritance Heirs Examining Kindred Incline Veneration Tutor

Book:Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

Source: Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

“The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.”

Men Soul Eye Passion Color Prejudice Appearance Observation Yellow Jaundice

Author:Isaac Watts

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