She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.
Libby CreelmanReason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".
R. Alan WoodsTags: reason faith reasoning faith-orthodoxy-theology-doubt
... insanity is never reasonable.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: reason insanity life-experience madness reasoning insane sad-but-true human-mind stating-the-obvious insane-world it-s-a-mad-world
The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.
I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.
Tags: love reason compassion empathy humility understanding selfishness reasoning conflict subjective narcissism erich-fromm objective objectivity the-art-of-loving
When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne BrontëTags: women opinions reasoning argument withstand
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
PlatoReason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Tags: faith heart reasoning mind-body-spirit r-alan-woods
There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.
R. Alan WoodsTags: reason reasoning reasonable r-alan-woods
Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.
Alec WilkinsonTags: reason reasoning chesterton
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
Jane AustenTags: time reasoning feelings first-love
« first previous
Page 3 of 5.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.