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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. (Alger William R.)
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. (Alger William R.)
Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. (Alger William R.)
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. (Alger William R.)
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. (Alger William R.)
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. (Alger William R.)
Reason gains all people by compelling none. (Alger William R.)
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. (Alger William R.)
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. (Alger William R.)
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. (Alger William R.)
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. (Alger William R.)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. (Alger William R.)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason. (Alger William R.)
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. (Alger William R.)
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