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Reason
«Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
cruelty, fragile, institutionalize, institutionalized, medium, unbridled, undisciplined
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Reason
| Keywords:
endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Doubt,
Existence,
Philosophy,
Reason,
Thought
| Keywords:
Cogito, ergo, sum
«He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave»
«For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Government,
Reason,
Slavery
| Keywords:
consent, consent of the governed
«He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Reason
| Keywords:
argument, command, establishes, noise, shows
«Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Reason
«Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Reason,
Testing
| Keywords:
dire, direr, direst, draws, nigh, The test, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving, untrained
