love has a very dulling effect on the brain
Elizabeth PetersDoes religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.
David Bentley HartStichwörter: reason kindlehighlight
It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.
Apostolos DoxiadisReason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
Hope MirrleesStichwörter: reason drugs poppies opiates endymion-leer temporary-relief
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Stichwörter: passion reason philosophy
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
Ellis PetersStichwörter: reason rationality argument stubbornness
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
Isaac AsimovTo question reason is to trust it.
Mitch StokesStichwörter: reason philosophy hume kant shot-of-faith-to-the-head
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
Ilyas KassamStichwörter: reason philosophy danger emotion logic intention activistm
Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.
Beryl SmalleyStichwörter: reason history emotion
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