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I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
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.
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]
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.]
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,
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks read more
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt read more
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]