#reason

The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

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Pictures, images, and other symbolical representations speak to the imagination. The mighty fortress of the human heart

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If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

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I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

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When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words rely on vain show, then we have the rights and wrongs of the

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The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability

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An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents,

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My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

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Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

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To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

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There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

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Do you not see that you are devouring each other in the carelessness of your thought?

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A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it is not the passion,...

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Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

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It is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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Reason: the rust of our vitality. We cannot be normal and alive at the same time. We derive our vitality from our store

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It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself;

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A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A

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Here, as elsewhere, human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible

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In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.

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Is it not in reasoning if anywhere that any reality becomes clear to the soul? … And indeed the soul reasons best when none

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