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"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
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"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect."
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"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."
Truth
"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."
Religion
"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."
Imagination
"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."
Prevention
"Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics."
Education
"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."
Perception
"He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity."
Religion
"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."
Difference
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
Intellectual
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