Sufficient Reason

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or reason:

“It was not sufficient for the disquiet of our minds that we disputed at the end of seventeen hundred years upon the articles of our own religion, but we must likewise introduce into our quarrels those of the Chinese. This dispute, however, was not productive of any great disturbances, but it served more than any other to characterize that busy, contentious, and jarring spirit which prevails in our climates.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“What reason have they for saying that we cannot rise from the dead? What is more difficult, to be born, or to rise again—that what has never been should be, or that what has been should be again?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)