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"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."
"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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