reason

If truth is not to be spoken, Sir, in a government, calling itself free, least it should be understood by the people, who are governed; and prevent their freely supplying the oil, that facilitates the movement of the cumbrous machine__f facts, which cannot be denied, be repressed; and reason, which cannot be controverted, be stifled; the time is not far distant, when such a country may say, adieu liberty!

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust__hat is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies?__f the guilt of a few, and the sufferings of many, while almost every page offers an argument in favor of what I never will believe__hat heaven created the human race only to destroy itself.

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,__specially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

Reason, in the end, will win against unreason.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason _ that is, reason divorced from experience.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

I only come out for food.

True freedom exists beyond the bounds of our faculty of reason because rational beings can only reason practical freedoms even if first conceived in theory or as an idea.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it__reedom, not reason__o pursue his plans for the future.

But the death of spirit goes by another name. It is usually called the birth of reason.The dreams of reason are, at this late date, everywhere to be seen, much like headstones in a cemetery. The inertia of a standard which prunes every tree to the dimensions of a utility pole will, with the same determination, core the heart out of the human personality. This fermenting mind, intoxicated by its heady sobriety, methodically slits its own throat, all the while mistaking the elongating wound for a smile.When the spirit is free, according to Nietzsche, the head will be the bowels of the heart. In these top heavy days that have turned life topsy-turvy the head has little appetite for freedom. Instead it has developed a taste for coprophagy.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.