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Quotes about reason
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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. (Walker Jimmie)
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. (Walker Jimmie)
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. (Walker Jimmie)
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. (Walker Jimmie)
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. (Walker Jimmie)
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. (Walker Jimmie)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. (Walker Jimmie)
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. (Walker Jimmie)
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. (Walker Jimmie)
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. (Walker Jimmie)
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. (Walker Jimmie)
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. (Walker Jimmie)
To reason about love is to lose reason. (Walker Jimmie)
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. (Walker Jimmie)
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. (Walker Jimmie)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Walker Jimmie)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. (Walker Jimmie)
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. (Walker Jimmie)
The more you reason the less you create. (Walker Jimmie)
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. (Walker Jimmie)
Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Walker Jimmie)
Let reason govern desire. (Walker Jimmie)
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. (Walker Jimmie)
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. (Walker Jimmie)
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Walker Jimmie)
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