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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

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Reason also is choice.

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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.’ Thomas Jefferson

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Reason and truth will prevail at last.

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Reason can discover things only near,–sees nothing that’s above her.

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

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Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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Reason consists in constantly perceiving things as they really are.

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Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.

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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

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Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

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Reason gains all men by compelling none.

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.


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