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Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
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.
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.
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
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.
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.
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.
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.
