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• All our knowledge begins with the senses...

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Categorical Imperative, Senses

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• Let reason govern desire.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Desire

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• We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Fancy, Guides

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.258

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• For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

  Quintilian

  Comic

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 658-59, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 17. 1, 1922.

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• But it is not reason that governs love.

  Moliere

  "Le Misanthrope". I, 1, 1666.

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• All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

  Moliere

  Wise, Perfect, Wish

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• Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

  John Milton

  Law, Force, Refuse

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Construction, Knowledge Gained

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.329, Read Books Ltd

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• Two angels guide
  The path of man, both aged and yet young.
  As angels are, ripening through endless years,
  On one he leans: some call her Memory,
  And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
  With deep mysterious accords: the other,
  Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
  A light divine and searching on the earth,
  Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
  Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
  Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
  Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
  But for Tradition; we walk evermore
  To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2724, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heaven, Want, Ifs

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• Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Being Yourself, Motivation, Needed

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• A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice

  "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal".

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• Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

  Rene Descartes

  Believe, Men, Beast

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• People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Imagination, Literature

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

  Albert Camus

  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Support, Intelligence, Intuition

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

  Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

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• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Racism, Hatred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

  William James

  Life, Success, Everyday

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Three, May

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.359, Read Books Ltd

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• Humor is reason gone mad.

  Groucho Marx

  Laughter, Inspiration, Humor

  "Rob Zombie Directing Oren Moverman-Scripted Groucho Marx Biopic" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

  Novalis

  Inspiring, Healing, Poetry

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Jonathan Williams, p. 136, 1989.

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• Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Integrity, Enthusiasm, Earnestness

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