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c97dd3b People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they? love reasonable Graham Greene
e2df4db It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. christianity spirituality god love philosophy absolutism reasonable jesus-shock catholicism relativism theology Peter Kreeft
7540218 It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. christianity spirituality god philosophy reasonable jesus-shock theology crazy Peter Kreeft
a2ddfe4 "She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks. No, she imagined people were rational and courteous, as she was, and when they proved otherwise, she assumed that she could influence them to become that way. Dangerous thinking. When she was truthful, she expected to hear the truth. Reasonable, she expected reasonable behavior in return. She was young, inventive, fantastically successful. She trusted in the world, believing in poetic justice- that good ideas blossomed and bore fruit, while dangerous schemes were meant to wither on the vine. She had passions and petty jealousies like everybody else, but she was possessed of a serene rationality. At three, she had listened while her mother sang "Greensleeves" in the dark, and she'd asked: "Why are you singing 'Greensleeves' when my nightgown is blue?" Then Gillian had changed the song to "Bluesleeves," and Emily had drifted off. Those songs were over now, Gillian long gone. Despite this loss- because of it- Emily was still that girl, seeking consonance and symmetry, logic, light." gillian-bach logical reasonable rational rationality Allegra Goodman