#reason

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore. ↗

— Len Dawson

#call #cancer #control #got #i

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#construction #defend #different #does #go

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#does #find #machine #mechanical #million

He who dares not (reason), is a slave. ↗

— William Drummond

#reason #slave #who

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ↗

— William Drummond

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Faith is reason grown courageous. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#courageous #grown #reason

Faith is not contrary to reason. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#contrary #reason

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#compromise #disconnect #left #limit #only