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"I call him free who is led solely by 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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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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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 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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"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."
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"There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"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."
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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"Desire is the essence of a man."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Desire is the very essence of man."
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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
Man
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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