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In Reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine: 'The hand that made us is divine.'
For man, therefore, the life according to reason is best and pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is man.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule allthat is myself.
I loved thee once; I'll love no more Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?
[Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting theshows ofthingstothedesires ofthemind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Only reasoncan convinceus ofthosethreefundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells And sights, before the dark of reason grows.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
L'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son de s ir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde na|"t de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence de raisonnable du monde. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the one who has lost everything except his reason.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partage e: car chacun pense en e" tre si bien pourvu, que ceux me" me qui sont les plus difficiles a' contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en de sirer plus qu'ils ont. En quoi il n'est pas vraisemblable que tous se trompent; mais pluto" t cela te moigne que la puissance de bien juger et distinguer le vrai d'avec le faux, qui est proprement ce qu'on nomme le bon sens ou la raison, est naturellement e gale en tous les hommes. Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it, that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have. In this matter it is not likely that everybody is mistaken; it rather goes to show that the power of judging well and distinguishing truth from falsehood, which is what we properly mean by good sense or reason, is naturally equal in all men.
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality.
I loved Estella I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
I believe the reason I escaped, both this time and on otheroccasions, was the idea of perishing neverentered my head.Nothing isso bad asterror for lowering a man's stamina.
Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
Je tiens a' mon imperfection comme a' ma raison d'e" tre. I hold on to my imperfection as tightly as my reason for being.
Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe,'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?'And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent,'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'
La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour. Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
The only reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Love is a universal migraine A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of humanreasonfor then we would know the mind of God.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
It is not, therefore, reason, which is the guide of life, but custom.
All theobjects of humanreasonorenquiry maynaturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.
It is not easy to forbear reflecting with how little reason these men profess themselves the followers of Jesus, who leftthisgreatcharacteristic tohis disciples, thatthey should be known by lovingoneanother, byuniversal and unbounded charity and benevolence.
The Europeans have scarcely visited any coast, but to gratify avarice, and extend corruption; to arrogate dominion without right, and practice cruelty without incentive But there isreason to hopethat the light of the gospel will at last illuminate the sands of Africa, and the deserts of America, though its progress cannot but be slow when it is so much obstructed by the lives of Christians.
There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.
Quand l'eau courbe un ba" ton, ma raison la redresse. When water curves a stick, my reason straightens it out.
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
Sometimeswe have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
The painter who draws by practiceand judgement of the eye without the use of reason is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without knowledge of the same.
Wer richtig r a« sonniert, erfindet auch; und wer erfinden will, muss r a« sonnieren k o« nnen. Nur die glauben, dass sich das eine von dem anderen trennen lasse, die zu keinem von beiden aufgelegt sind. The man who can reason properly can invent; and anyone who wants to invent must be able to reason. The only people who think that the one can be separated from the other are those who have no inclination for either.
La langue est une raison humaine qui a ses raisons, et que l'homme ne conna|"t pas. Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man. See Pascal 641:23.
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busyand boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
Ma thubhairt ar cainnt gu bheil a'chiall co-ionann ris a'ghaol chan fhior dhi. If our language has said that reason is identical with love, it is not speaking the truth.
We live in a world ruined by Reason.
God grant that we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don't mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Serbia beggars belief.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Asgood almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a Comus, A Mask man kills a reasonable creature,God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout intotheregions of sinand falsity thanby reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
When God gave [Adam] reason, hegave him freedomto choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam.
He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.
Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.
We reason with one another; he prescribes the remedies; I omit to take them and I recover.
Si on me presse de dire pourquoy je l'aymois, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer, qu'en respondant: 'Parce que c'estoit luy; par ce que c'estoit moy.' If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Durch schlechte K o« chinnendurch den vollkommenen Mangel anVernunft in der Ku« che ist die Entwicklung des Menschen am l a« ngsten aufgehalten, am schlimmsten beeintr a« chtigt worden. Through bad female cooksthrough the entire lack of reason inthekitchenthe development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with.
Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.
The historical repugnancetowomanhas a rational basis: disgust is reason's proper response to the grossness of procreative nature.
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.
Le c½ur a ses raisons, que la raison ne conna|"t point. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
The ruling passion be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear,'Whatever Is, is.'
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
O! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes And Reason giv'n them but to study Flies? See Nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the Whole escape.
Reason, an ignis fatuus in the mind, Which leaving light of nature, sense behind, Pathless and dangerous wandering ways it takes, Through error's fenny bogs and thorny brakes; Whilst the misguided follower climbs, with pain, Mountains of whimsy heaped in his own brain.
La visio n de una Ame rica deslatinizada por propia voluntad, sin la extorsio n de la conquista, y regenerada luego a imagen y semejanza del arquetipo del Norte, flota ya sobre los suen os de muchos sinceros interesados por nuestro porvenir Tenemos nuestra nordoman|a. Es necesario oponerle los l|mites que la razo n y el sentimiento sen alan. The vision of an America de-Latinized of its own will, without threat of conquest, and reconstituted in the image and likeness of the North, now looms in the nightmares of many who are genuinely concerned about our future We have our USA-mania. It must be limited by the boundaries our reason and sentiment jointly dictate.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.
The essential characteristic of philosophy, which makes it a study distinct from science, is criticism. It examines critically the principles employed in science and in daily life; it searches out any inconsistencies there may be in these principles, and it onlyaccepts them when, as the result of a critical inquiry, there is no reason for rejecting them.
I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism.We must start from a broad acceptance of whatever seems to be knowledge and is not rejected for some specific reason.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
La cruaute , bien loin d'e" tre un vice, est le premier sentiment qu'imprime en nous la nature; l'enfant brise son hochet, mord le te ton de sa nourrice, e trangle son oiseau, bien avant que d'avoir l'a" ge de raison. Far from being a vice, cruelty is the primary feeling that nature imprints in us. The infant breaks its rattle, bites its nurse's nipple, and strangles a bird, well before reaching the age of reason.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason, I pray. See Carroll194:67.
I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
De natura Rationis est, res sub quadam aeternitatis specie percipere. It is the nature of reason to perceive things under a certain species of eternity.
Ex virtute absoluto agere nihil aliud in nobis est, quam ex ductu Rationis agere, vivere, suum esse conservare (haec tria idem significant) ex fundamento proprium utile quaerendi. To act absolutely according to virtue is nothing else in us than to act under the guidance of reason, to live so, and to preserve one's being (these three have the same meaning) onthebasis of seeking what isusefulto oneself.
In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us of the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.
Shouting isnot a substitute for thinking and reason isnot the subversion but the salvation of freedom.
The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of follyand inanity.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew In Memoriam A.H.H. Some one had blundered: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.
We will listen to the wind's text Blown through the roof, or the thrush's song In the thick bush that proved him wrong, Wrong from the start, for nature's truth Is primary and her changing seasons Correct out of a vaster reason The vague errors of the flesh.
La foi consiste a' croire ce que la raison ne croit pas Il ne suffit pas qu'une chose soit possible pour la croire. Faith consists in believing what reason cannotIn order to believe something, it is not enough that it should be possible.
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