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“These Christians always seemed to consider long-term holistic wellbeing. None of their answers were easy or quick but took grit and determination. Every “do” and “don’t” had a reason and purpose behind it. I was finally beginning to understand the why behind things.”

Reason Understanding Determination Wellbeing Longterm

Book:Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“In similar fashion, Bellarmine's decree of 1616, banning the teaching of Copernicanism, looks like a calculated political move, designed to secure the interests of the church. Part of the traditional idea of an opposition between the "rational scientist" and the "prejudiced opponents of science" is best captured by noting that some people do not give the highest priority to impersonal cognitive goals but to certain practical ends (sometimes personal, sometimes impersonal) and that their actions are well designed for achieving these ends.”

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Book:The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

Source: The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

“Even happiness is transient, as it needs a reason. The ultimate state is bliss”

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Book:A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“The greatest gift you can receive is reason.”

Reason Greatest Gift

Author:Sharky Rich

“The reason is that I post and publish my pictures and writings, whether as prose or poetry in Urdu and English, for the coming researchers in the future who will discover me unproblematically on social media.”

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“he believed reason, rather than penance and fear, was the road to virtue and perhaps even to the divine. Mathematical treatises became second only to Scripture”

Book:Trust

Source: Trust

“I began to realise that the most profound wisdom of man is preserved in the answers given by faith, and that I did not have the right to negate them on the grounds of reason and, above all, that it is these answers alone that can reply to the question of life.”

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Book:A Confession and Other Religious Writings

Source: A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“Liberalism postulated the rational and 'progressive' evolutionary nature of the historical process. Besides success it upheld pragmatism, tolerance and compromise as the principal political virtues. At the core of the liberal outlook stood the 'idea of limits'. It abhorred excess and extremism; it believed that 'absolutist' thought of any sort assured at least failure if not perdition. All problems were seen as soluble with the application of reason; and reason, Liberals believed, ultimately did prevail. Reason, in fact, suffused all and was identified with reality.”

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Book:The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany During 1930s

Source: The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany During 1930s

“Shorter windows give you less perspective.”

Reason Perspective Window Insight Access Evaluate Discern Contimplate

Author:Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.

“Be brave in the face of those who would ostracize you for using your reason above the “word of God”. Dodge whatever Holy Book they happen to throw at you.”

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Author:Kassandra Dick