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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well."
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"Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences."
Science
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
Fact
"Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?"
Economy
"The mind cannot foresee its own advance."
Mind
"Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding."
Intelligence
"He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants."
Knowledge
"If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this."
People
"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm."
Power
"I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions."
Time
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
Freedom
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