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“What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason.”

Book:Blue Horses

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Blue Horses

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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

“The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate.”

Reason Thought Rationality

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”

Death Fantasy Arabia Arab Nasir Ghameq Zafira Iskandar

Book:We Hunt the Flame

Source: We Hunt the Flame

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.”

Reason Rights Color Brains

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t draw equations, our consciences don’t have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.”

Reason

Book:Senlin Ascends

Source: Senlin Ascends

“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing. But I was wrong. Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn. - Florence Day”

Death Grief Mourning Grief And Loss Death And Dying Death Of A Parent Ashley Poston The Dead Romantics

Book:The Dead Romantics

Source: The Dead Romantics

“You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.”

Reason Mankind Passions

Author:Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.”

Reason

Book:Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Source: Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die.”

Reason Suicide Why

Book:Aimee

Source: Aimee

“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the winning ticket in lit-crit today. More typical are sentiments that see such a notion as not even admissible, if at all desirable. The world of these academic refuseniks is, however, a bleak and sterile place. Disarmed by their own epistemic fiat, scholars cannot assert anything since they deny the idea of objective rationality. If they arrive at an insight whose truth they wish to defend – for example that truth and rationality are passé – they can’t do so because truth and rationality are constructed to be constructed.”

Reason Literary Criticism

Book:Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

Source: Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”

Reason Hero Prejudice

Author:Montague Brown

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