#reason

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. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#human #least #lesson #our #reason

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#cannot #change #consist #constitutions #general

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#been #conform #constraint #dictates #government

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#man #rather #reasonable #reasoning #than

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#even #human #human beings #reason #sometimes

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make. ↗

— Isaac Hanson

#i #i do #i love #love #make

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#contradiction #elsewhere #fire #fundamentalists #good

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#moral #reasons #thing