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... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to... More
... how can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? More
... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ... More
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one... More
...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly... More
A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed... More
A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason. More
A: “Why did you do that?”
B: “Who knows why anybody does anything?” More
All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not... More
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with... More
And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own... More
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. More
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some... More
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the... More
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;
So will a man’s reason vary... More
Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles. More
Blind fear that seeing reason leads finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear.... More
But know that in the soul
Are many lesser faculties that serve
Reason as chief; among... More
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like... More
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was... More
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing... More
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. More
Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than... More
Faith seeking reason.
[Fides quaerens intellectum.] More
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame. More
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which... More
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. More
He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the... More
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance—but he who knows it... More
He says so ... and he says so ... Like zeroes, say-sos don’t sum. More
How did reason enter the world? As is fitting, in an irrational way, accidentally. We will have... More
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. More
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the... More
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. More
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight. More
I borrowed today out of the Advocate’s Library, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, but... More
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about... More
I have been told to reason by the heart,
But heart, like head, leads helplessly;
I have... More
I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and... More
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves,... More
I think a Person who is thus terrifyed [sic] with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much... More
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between “reason” and... More
If one hears truth in the morning, one may die without regret in the evening. More
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten... More
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we... More
If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing... More
In matters of the intellect follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any... More
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough... More
Invisible harmony is better than visible. More
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. More
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face... More
Is your blood
So madly hot that no discourse of reason,
Nor fear of bad success in a bad... More
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things... More
It is better to die than to turn your back on reason. More
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my... More
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely... More
It is of great use to the sailor, to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom... More
It is part of the nature of consciousness, of how the mental apparatus works, that free reason is... More
It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the... More
It is the gift of heaven and not of reason. More
It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the... More
It is, most fundamentally because moral judgments are universalizable that we can speak of moral... More
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of... More
It seems, Euphranor..., that there is nothing so singularly absurd as we are apt to think, in the... More
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the... More
It will be no excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by... More
I’ll not listen to reason.... Reason always means what someone else has got to say. More
I’m a scientist also, Dr. Holden. I know the value of the cold light of reason. But I also know... More
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the... More
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. More
La foi consiste à croire ce que la raison ne croit pas ... Il ne suffit pas qu’une chose soit... More
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids... More
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. The heart has its reasons which reason... More
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason:... More
Listening not to me but to reason [logos], it is wise to agree that all is one. More
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent... More
Man know thy powers, and not observe thy size,
The noble power in piercing reason... More
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason. More
Man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to... More
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! More
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason. More
My heart got to thumping. You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps... More
My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them... More
Nor had I erred in my calculations—nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free. More
Nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am evened with him, wife for wife,
Or failing... More
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself,... More
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason! More
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my... More
Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part... More
Oh, some as soon would throw it all
As throw a part away.
And some will say all sorts of... More
One who has reason on his side has no need to shout loudly. More
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. More
Passion cooks. Reason cleans. More
Passion crashes into obstacles; Reason peers around them. More
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the
better and approve it, but I follow... More
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. More
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself... More
Reason and love are sworn enemies. More
Reason and speech we onely bring. More
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. More

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