#reason

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#authority #being #cannot #obeys #rational

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#company #get #i #key #people

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#criticized #i #i think #look #object

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#earth #heaven #life #reason #truth

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#i #muse #need #reason #suffer

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#confusion #craziness #desperation #good-life #life

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#reasonable-lies #life

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#racism #reason #life

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#choice #fyodor-dostoyevsky #life #notes-from-the-underground #reason