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"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
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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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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."
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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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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
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"I think that things happen for a 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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"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
Knowledge
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
Ethics
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
Desire
"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
Morality
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
Faith
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
Beauty
"Woman wants control, man self-control ."
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"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."
Law
"Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts."
Knowledge
"Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself."
Philosophy
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