Sufficient Reason

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or reason:

“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)