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«Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion»
«Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.»
Author: William Pickens
| About:
Colors,
Inferiority,
Prejudice,
Reason
| Keywords:
dispel, dispelling, enslavement, inferiority, The Mark, The Mark of
«Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Anger,
Reason
| Keywords:
One Good Reason, seldom, without reasoning
«A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Life,
Reason
| Keywords:
balanced, bout, bouts, drives, irrational, occasional, require, violent
«Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Reason,
Truth
| Keywords:
avidity, imperfections, revealed, seasoned
«All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Reason,
Understanding
| Keywords:
proceeds, senses, the senses, with reason
«Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Dawn,
Men,
Reason,
Sleep,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
go to bed
«As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect»
«An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
Appeal To Reason
«Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Experience,
Nature,
Reason
| Keywords:
commence, commenced, commences, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, proceed, with reason
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