Sufficient Reason Quotes

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.