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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.
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.
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
[Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit read more
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
[Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly read more
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion read more
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of others.
[Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad
similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them read more
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.