#reason

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#reason #inspirational

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed ↗

— Richard Wright

#life

The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons. ↗

— Jean Renoir

#life #reasons #life

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#essence #faculty #highest #lord #man

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#learning #reason #reasoning #training #education

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#reason #universal-love #love

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense ↗

— sarajevo_sara

#life-and-living #thinking-reason #attitude

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had