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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. (Alger William R.)
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. (Alger William R.)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. (Alger William R.)
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. (Alger William R.)
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. (Alger William R.)
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. (Alger William R.)
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. (Alger William R.)
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. (Alger William R.)
To reason about love is to lose reason. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. (Alger William R.)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Alger William R.)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. (Alger William R.)
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. (Alger William R.)
The more you reason the less you create. (Alger William R.)
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. (Alger William R.)
Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Alger William R.)
Let reason govern desire. (Alger William R.)
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. (Alger William R.)
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
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