Sufficient Reason

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or reason:

    “Women ... are degraded by the ... propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.”
    —Stephen Hales (1677–1761)