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Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
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Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn’t reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.’ Sydney Smith
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No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, is only our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needs light,–to see clearly and far, it needs the light of Heaven.
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One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn’t really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She’s 9 and it’s really a good film for all ages.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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People do everything for a reason, but after it is done, people sometimes forget that reason.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
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Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously, but as it reflects the light of Divine truth, shed from heaven.
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