I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.
Robert G. IngersollMots clés knowledge reason understanding
The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.
Robert G. IngersollMots clés reason problems mechanic
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.
Robert G. IngersollMots clés knowledge reason atheism fact understanding facts agnosticism theism
Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak of having a great, noble, craven, daring, or debased soul, but to come right out with "my soul" is something one simply cannot bring oneself to do. It is distinctly an
older person's word, and this can only be understood by assuming that in the course of life people become more and more aware of something for which they urgently need a name they cannot find until they finally resort, reluctantly, to the name they had originally despised. How to describe it, then? Whether one is at rest or in motion, what matters is not what lies ahead, what one sees, hears, wants, takes, masters. It forms a horizon, a semicircle before one, but the ends of this semicircle are joined by a string, and the plane of this string goes right through·the middle of the world. In front, the face and hands look out of it; sensations and strivings run ahead of it, and no one doubts that whatever one does·is always reasonable, or at least passionate. In other words, outer
circumstances call for us to act in a way everyone can understand; and if, in the toils of passion, we do something incomprehensible, that too is, in its own way, understandable.
Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.
Thomm QuackenbushMots clés reason emotion sense
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
William Peter BlattyGiving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.
Israelmore AyivorMots clés reason free gifts food-for-thought giving give receiving generous generousity receive give-freely freely-give preceed reasons-for-giving
She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.
Núria AñóMots clés strength pain gender reason woman women freedom identity integrity courage feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy self-awareness relationship realism womanhood dignity eye-opening insecurity women-s-rights abuse domestic-abuse women-writers dignity-for-survival domestic-violence gender-inequality double-standard women-s-day leave-home nuria-ano leave-the-past painfully catalan-writer catalan-writers dignity-of-women dv spanish-writer spanish-writers
Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands they pulsed with that same pulse. He had taken a bird and warmed it between his hands or inside his jacket, brought the life back until it was able to fly. Sometimes, released from his hands, they circled once around him before flying away; in gratitude, or so the child had believed--and the belief had survived all the man's science.
Barry UnsworthMots clés growing-up reason faith
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
Lev ShestovMots clés reason impossible ostoevsky
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