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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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,
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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.
You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw read more
You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I
endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."
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.
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.
Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till read more
Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near.
