love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

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Does 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 Hart

Mots clés reason kindlehighlight

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It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Apostolos Doxiadis

Mots clés reason logic

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Reason 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 Mirrlees

Mots clés reason drugs poppies opiates endymion-leer temporary-relief

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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.

David Hume

Mots clés passion reason philosophy

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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Ellis Peters

Mots clés reason rationality argument stubbornness

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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 Asimov

Mots clés reason humanism

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To question reason is to trust it.

Mitch Stokes

Mots clés reason philosophy hume kant shot-of-faith-to-the-head

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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 Kassam

Mots clés reason philosophy danger emotion logic intention activistm

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Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Beryl Smalley

Mots clés reason history emotion

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