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A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher read more
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the read more
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason:
For why in man's matters is neither read more
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason:
For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.
[Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:
Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not read more
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.