The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullersTags: liberty reason freedom change-the-world demonstrate
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
BoethiusTags: reason free-will philosophy
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.
Charlotte BrontëI studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
Benjamin MoserTags: reason madness mathematics
Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
David MoodyTags: life reason living survival
I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.
Christine FeehanTags: reason choice aplologizing
The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.
Joseph FletcherTags: reason faith church spirituality
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.
What the devil was the reason?
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
Peter PrangeTags: knowledge reason philosophy enlightenment
The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature")
Lars GustafssonTags: reason fantasy genre fantastic fantastique
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