reason

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fd03084	We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir Chris. told me, but there is a Grammar in them if I could but Puzzle it out. This is a mad Age, I replied, and there are many fitter for Bedlam than these here confin'd to a Chain or a dark Room. A sad Reflection, Nick. And what little Purpose have we to glory in our Reason, I continu'd, when the Brain may so suddenly be disorder'd?	bedlam insanity reason	Peter Ackroyd
a013d45	In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only to the institutionalization of Christianity in the fourth century, when Christians first broke into the tombs of saints to gather relics, but farther still, beyond the horizon of recorded history. The request is all the stranger for the fact that the man whose remains were treated in this quasisaintlike way would go down in history as the progenitor of materialism, rationalism, and a whole tradition that looked on such veneration as nonsense.	reason	Russell Shorto
b49daf0	There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?	inspirational optimism reason	Rebecca McNutt
bf9b134	The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.	passion reason	Roger Zelazny
d0ff33b	Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.	reason	Anne Brontë
7dbc0d3	The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.	knowledge reason revelation wisdom	Watchman Nee
b073fdd	Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.	evangelism logic reason	Alister E. McGrath
a866138	you are the cause by which I die	cause death means reason	Geoffrey Chaucer
0c0b78e	I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at all. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground, unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.	reason science	Elizabeth Gilbert
a2d40b1	Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.	intelligence logic philosophy rationale reason reasoning thinking	Robert M. Pirsig
b096101	...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.	correspondence embodied-mind embodied-realism meaning metaphor objectivity reason truth	George Lakoff
fe5922d	Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.	reason	Ursula K. Le Guin
d92c024	Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.	christianity enlightenment rational reason sin total-depravity truth	James K.A. Smith
8aae8b5	...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...	reason	W. Somerset Maugham
cc38aa9	What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?	logic reason	Yann Martel
2827d47	This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.	reason	Nadia Bolz-Weber
49047c4	She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.	reason reason-and-common-sense	Mary Balogh
a27b3c3	Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.	faith rationalism reason transcendence	Alister E. McGrath
f7e5f62	... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be again; there remained too hope, a seneless hope, that great asset of the downtrodden. For those who rule and must oppress in order to rule must work according to reason; and if, carried away by their passions or driven by an adversary, they go beyond the limits of reasonable action, they start down the slippery slope and thereby reveal the commencement of their own downfall. Whereas those who are downtrodden and exploited make equal use of their reason and unreason for they are but two different kinds of arms in the continual struggle, now underground, now open, against the oppressor.	abused adversary arrogant-men domestic-abuse hope power reason struggle	Ivo Andrić
ad490fb	That is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason with demand, and where there is no reason, there is no sense. As for your support, whatever you call it, some long word, what is the use of it?	demanding-more reason	Richard Llewellyn
68dd477	But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.	dying end ill important life reason think time	Mitch Albom
619c581	[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.	reason senses	Angela Carter
91d6d89	You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.	misery reason	Michael Moorcock
4e3699a	If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.	foreign foreigner foreigners humor humours reason travel traveling unfriendly visitor	David Weber
253fb76	But it works that way if it works.	reason	Jeffery Deaver

fd03084

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir Chris. told me, but there is a Grammar in them if I could but Puzzle it out. This is a mad Age, I replied, and there are many fitter for Bedlam than these here confin'd to a Chain or a dark Room. A sad Reflection, Nick. And what little Purpose have we to glory in our Reason, I continu'd, when the Brain may so suddenly be disorder'd?

bedlam insanity reason

Peter Ackroyd

a013d45

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only to the institutionalization of Christianity in the fourth century, when Christians first broke into the tombs of saints to gather relics, but farther still, beyond the horizon of recorded history. The request is all the stranger for the fact that the man whose remains were treated in this quasisaintlike way would go down in history as the progenitor of materialism, rationalism, and a whole tradition that looked on such veneration as nonsense.

reason

Russell Shorto

b49daf0

There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?

inspirational optimism reason

Rebecca McNutt

bf9b134

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

passion reason

Roger Zelazny

d0ff33b

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

reason

Anne Brontë

7dbc0d3

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

knowledge reason revelation wisdom

Watchman Nee

b073fdd

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

evangelism logic reason

Alister E. McGrath

a866138

you are the cause by which I die

cause death means reason

Geoffrey Chaucer

0c0b78e

I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at all. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground, unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.

reason science

Elizabeth Gilbert

a2d40b1

Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

intelligence logic philosophy rationale reason reasoning thinking

Robert M. Pirsig

b096101

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.

correspondence embodied-mind embodied-realism meaning metaphor objectivity reason truth

George Lakoff

fe5922d

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

reason

Ursula K. Le Guin

d92c024

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

christianity enlightenment rational reason sin total-depravity truth

James K.A. Smith

8aae8b5

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

reason

W. Somerset Maugham

cc38aa9

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?

logic reason

Yann Martel

2827d47

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

reason

Nadia Bolz-Weber

49047c4

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

reason reason-and-common-sense

Mary Balogh

a27b3c3

Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

faith rationalism reason transcendence

Alister E. McGrath

f7e5f62

... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be again; there remained too hope, a seneless hope, that great asset of the downtrodden. For those who rule and must oppress in order to rule must work according to reason; and if, carried away by their passions or driven by an adversary, they go beyond the limits of reasonable action, they start down the slippery slope and thereby reveal the commencement of their own downfall. Whereas those who are downtrodden and exploited make equal use of their reason and unreason for they are but two different kinds of arms in the continual struggle, now underground, now open, against the oppressor.

abused adversary arrogant-men domestic-abuse hope power reason struggle

Ivo Andrić

ad490fb

That is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason with demand, and where there is no reason, there is no sense. As for your support, whatever you call it, some long word, what is the use of it?

demanding-more reason

Richard Llewellyn

68dd477

But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.

dying end ill important life reason think time

Mitch Albom

619c581

[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

reason senses

Angela Carter

91d6d89

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

misery reason

Michael Moorcock

4e3699a

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

foreign foreigner foreigners humor humours reason travel traveling unfriendly visitor

David Weber

253fb76

But it works that way if it works.

reason

Jeffery Deaver