You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés life reason living desire
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...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés reason notes-from-underground fyodor-dostoyevsky
I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
John SteinbeckMots clés science existence reality reason john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich NietzscheMots clés reason religion fundamentalists fanatics
Stephanie had no problem doing what she
was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she
should.
Mots clés reason stephanie skulduggery-pleasant
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
Christopher HitchensMots clés reason society class struggle nirvana anxiety irrationality utopia
It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.
Cameron ConawayTo be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
Christopher HitchensMots clés reason logic irrationality september-11-attacks rationalisation
It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
H.G. WellsMots clés love reason war madness
Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.
Peter SingerMots clés reason philosophy suffering emotion
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