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...alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,
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reason
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
knowledge-of-self
values
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Lloyd Alexander |
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Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
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reason
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Anne Brontë |
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It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.' 'Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can't look that far back.' He got up from his desk and went over to the window, from where he could see thin pillar of smoke rising into the clouds. 'I never know where anything comes from, Walter.' 'Comes from, sir?' 'Where you come from, where I come from, where all this comes from.' And he gestured at the offices and homes beneath him. He was about to say something else but he stopped, embarrassed; and in any case he was coming to the limits of his understanding. He was not sure if all the movements and changes in the world were part of some coherent development, like the weaving of a quilt which remains one fabric despite its variegated pattern. Or was it a more delicate operation than this - like the enlarging surface of a balloon in the sense that, although each part increased at the same rate of growth as every other part, the entire object grew more fragile as it expanded? And if one element was suddenly to vanish, would the others disappear also - imploding upon each other helplessly as if time itself were unravelling amid a confusion of Sights, calls, shrieks and phrases of music which grew smaller and smaller? He thought of a train disappearing into the distance, until eventually only the smoke and the smell of its engine remained.
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reason
patterns
pattern
rationality
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Peter Ackroyd |
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There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?
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reason
optimism
inspirational
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Rebecca McNutt |
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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?
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reason
bedlam
insanity
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Peter Ackroyd |
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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.
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reason
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Russell Shorto |
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Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.
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reason
evangelism
logic
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Alister E. McGrath |
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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.
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reason
intelligence
philosophy
rationale
reasoning
thinking
logic
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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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.
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reason
science
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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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?
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reason
logic
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Yann Martel |
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you are the cause by which I die
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reason
death
means
cause
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.
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reason
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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...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.
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metaphor
meaning
reason
truth
correspondence
embodied-realism
embodied-mind
objectivity
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George Lakoff |
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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.
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enlightenment
christianity
reason
truth
rational
total-depravity
sin
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James K.A. Smith |
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...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...
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reason
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.
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reason
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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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.
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travel
reason
humor
foreigner
unfriendly
visitor
humours
foreign
foreigners
traveling
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David Weber |
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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.
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faith
reason
rationalism
transcendence
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Alister E. McGrath |
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... 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.
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struggle
reason
hope
abused
adversary
arrogant-men
domestic-abuse
power
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Ivo Andrić |
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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.
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ill
time
reason
life
important
think
end
dying
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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reason
reason-and-common-sense
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Mary Balogh |
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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?
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reason
demanding-more
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Richard Llewellyn |
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But it works that way if it works.
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reason
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Jeffery Deaver |
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[...] 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.
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reason
senses
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Angela Carter |
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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.
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reason
misery
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Michael Moorcock |