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    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.

    by Found in Reason Quotes,
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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

by Nicola Abbagnano Found in: Reason Quotes,
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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

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You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

by Anon. Found in: Reason Quotes,
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Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?

Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?

by Alexander Pope Found in: Reason Quotes,
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Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,

Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

by Voltaire Found in: Reason Quotes,
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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.

by Emmanuel Kant Found in: Reason Quotes,
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

by William Hazlitt Found in: Reason Quotes,
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

by Gallus Found in: Reason Quotes,
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