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Letter "W" » with reason
«Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.»
Author: Ethan Allen
| Keywords:
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«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Reason
| Keywords:
endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
| Keywords:
buried, instincts, Learning to, misinformation, The Miracle, with reason
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
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«The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, critic, generous, poet, with reason
«All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Reason,
Understanding
| Keywords:
proceeds, senses, the senses, with reason
«I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
earn, earns, recognize, with reason
«But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
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«Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Experience,
Nature,
Reason
| Keywords:
commence, commenced, commences, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, proceed, with reason
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason
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