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.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: reason human-nature underground
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor HugoTag: imagination intelligence reason
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Delos McKownI do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
Bertrand RussellTag: knowledge reason belief burden-of-proof fiction satan superstition gods probability proof egyptian babylon christian-god hypothesis olympus rational santa
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
C.G. JungTag: intelligence reason morality psychology
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Tag: passion reason inferno sinners dante italian-medieval-poetry lustful
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Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
Robert G. IngersollTag: science happiness experience reason inspiration belief nature hope observation supernatural content holy-trinity trinity
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VoltaireThe so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
Tag: science reason philosophy intolerance tolerance force argument criminal plato
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