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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Roger Bacon
Lord Henry Wotton: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edward W. Howe
No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.
Source Unknown
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Martin Luther
Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.
Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, l. 490
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
Rumi
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence Sterne
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
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.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
