"Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason."
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"No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is."
"Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love."
"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
"The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions."
"You always be calling her, she aint never answerin. You aint figured out I am the reason that she canceling"
"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."
"There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in."
"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason."
"It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime."
"One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason."
"And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force."
"Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled."
"When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it."
"If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion."
"Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?"
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids."
"Reason and truth will prevail at last"
"Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty."