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Quotes about reason
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No one ever excused his way to success. (Bond Tommy)
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. (Bond Tommy)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. (Bond Tommy)
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. (Bond Tommy)
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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. (Bond Tommy)
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. (Bond Tommy)
Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Bond Tommy)
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. (Bond Tommy)
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. (Bond Tommy)
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. (Bond Tommy)
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. (Bond Tommy)
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. (Bond Tommy)
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. (Bond Tommy)
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. (Bond Tommy)
Reason gains all people by compelling none. (Bond Tommy)
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. (Bond Tommy)
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. (Bond Tommy)
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. (Bond Tommy)
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. (Bond Tommy)
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. (Bond Tommy)
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. (Bond Tommy)
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. (Bond Tommy)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. (Bond Tommy)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason. (Bond Tommy)
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. (Bond Tommy)
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