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Mon 15 Nov 2021

Reason

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason
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Random quote of the day:

“I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.”

—Brian L. Weiss, M.D., Many Lives, Many Masters

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Fri 30 Oct 2020

Frank

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason, science
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Random quote of the day:

“We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”

—attributed to David Russell

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Mon 20 Apr 2020

Monkeys

Posted by PJ under brain, quote of the day, rationality, reason
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Random quote of the day:

“Oftentimes our first reaction, even if it is about an intellectual subject, is an emotional one: We react to the ideas we hear not only with our rational frontal lobes but with this primitive part of our brain. And when we feel emotionally committed to a position, that is precisely the time we’re in the greatest danger of reacting—not from our frontal lobes, like enlightened human beings, but from our amygdalas, like angry or frightened monkeys.”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Mon 19 Nov 2018

Time

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason, right and wrong, time
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Random quote of the day:

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

—Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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Wed 8 Apr 2015

Both

Posted by PJ under faith, quote of the day, reason, religion, science
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Random quote of the day:

“The debate between faith and reason is a false one. Science and religion don’t occupy the same turf. Saying, “Now that we have science, there is no reason for religion” is like saying, “Now that we have the microwave oven, we have no use for Shakespeare.” We need both, of course. Only then can we lead fully rounded lives.”

—Eric Weiner, “A Quest To Seek The Sublime In The Spiritual,” National Public Radio, December 20, 2011

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Thu 15 Jan 2015

Poisoned reason

Posted by PJ under creativity, ideas, quote of the day, reason, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Ideas are poison. The more you reason, the less you create.”

—Raymond Chandler, letter to Charles Morton, 28 October 1947

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Wed 12 Nov 2014

Raison in the sunset

Posted by PJ under epiphanies, quote of the day, reason
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“Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.”

—Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, tr. Eshleman & Smith

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Thu 9 Oct 2014

Ratio of reason

Posted by PJ under belief, knowledge, quote of the day, reason
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Random quote of the day:

“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”

—William Blake, There Is No Natural Religion

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Fri 4 Apr 2014

Beautiful visions

Posted by PJ under beauty, madness, quote of the day, reason, writing
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Random quote of the day: 

“The only beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

—André Gide, The Journals of André Gide, Vol. I

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Fri 25 May 2012

Heart sense

Posted by PJ under hearts, quote of the day, reason
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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

—Blaise Pascal, Pensées

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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