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«Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice»
«Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
shamelessness, simulation, simulations, surviving, versatility, whore
«Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
gradually, insight, instinctively, instruction, trial, work in progress
«Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off»
«Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.»
«Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Appreciation,
Reason
| Keywords:
infinite number, recognition
«Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
commands, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, former, imperiously, latter, punished
«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.»
«Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Experience,
Reason
| Keywords:
exclusion, forbid, morality, national, prevail, principle
«Reason and truth will prevail at last»
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