"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."
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"You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient."
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"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
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"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
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"Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method."
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"The voice of reason is small, but very persistent."
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"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."
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"God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason."
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
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"The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life."
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"Human reason is by nature architectonic."
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"Let your desires be ruled by reason."
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"For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all."
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"There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God."
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"We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others."
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"The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit."
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