In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
Robert FrippTag: love reason despair hope creativity uncertainty benevolence creative unreasonable
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
G.K. ChestertonTag: reason poetry serenity faith mysticism
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
Jane AustenTag: truth reason feeling exertion impulse
Tag: reason common-sense yoga meditation beliefs
If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.
Michelle TempletTag: reason philosophy free-thinking
Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.
Michelle TempletPeople said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.'
'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.
Tag: reason philosophy public-opinion
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo TolstoyLatter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
G.K. ChestertonTag: truth reason scepticism
... insanity is never reasonable.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: reason insanity life-experience madness reasoning insane sad-but-true human-mind stating-the-obvious insane-world it-s-a-mad-world
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