#reason

Faith is stronger than so-called reason. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#h-h #rationality #reason #faith

To question reason is to trust it. ↗

— Mitch Stokes

#kant #philosophy #reason #shot-of-faith-to-the-head #faith

The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith? ↗

— J.F. Baldwin

#reason #faith

Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason. ↗

— Titus Flavius Clemens

#faith #reason #faith

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #balance #better #cases #combination

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature") ↗

— Lars Gustafsson

#fantastique #fantasy #genre #reason #imagination

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#any #felt #give #hope #i

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

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#reason #secret #truth #understand #life