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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.
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.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
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.
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.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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.]
