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Letter "R" » Reason
«I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.»
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
| About:
Reason
«In quiet places, reason abounds»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, places, quiet
«It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (...) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.»
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| About:
Reason
«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»
«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»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
anxiety, concealment, considers, every quarter, fashion, goodwill, grateful, insofar, paralyzed, paralyzes, paralyzing, quarters, sets, three-quarter, timid, unfruitful
«If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conscience,
Meaning,
Reason
| Keywords:
consciences, dimming, existed, intolerable, One half
«Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other»
«If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason»
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