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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving read more
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
The more reason, the less government.
The more reason, the less government.
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.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is read more
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through read more
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.
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.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.