“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.” ReasonEmotionalEmotionsRationalSympathyIrrationalRationalityStoicismHeartlessStoic Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.” DeathLife And DeathDeath Of A Loved OneDeath Of A FriendComforting Thought Author:Henry David Thoreau
“He preferred not to meddle with such problems, they were too discomfiting for him and would only land him in the most agonizing insecurity and disquiet, whereas to make use of one's reason one truly needed both security and quiet.” ReasonSecurityQuietPatrick SuskindPerfume The Story Of A Murderer Book:Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“The number of gurus, yogis, swamis and psychics in a country increases exponentially with the fall of reason, and the fall of reason leads to the fall of civilization.” ReasonReasoningPearls Of WisdomMysticismRational ThinkingFreethoughtSpiritualismFree ThoughtFreethinking Author:Abhijit Naskar
“It insists on our absolute belief in unverifiable creeds and, in return, promises a reward that can only be verified after we cease to exist. By demanding the unconditional renunciation of our reason in this way, bad-faith prevents us from living an authentic, intentional life: it anaesthetises our integrity.” ReasonReligionFaithAtheism Quotes Book:Life As A Kite Source: Life As A Kite
“But they weren’t small children, they were women, they were admiring someone they didn’t know the first thing about. Look at the hag Truth for once, college girl.” ReasonObliviousnessSheltered Haven Book:White Oleander Source: White Oleander
“People are very well poised in translating the meaning of filthy words than posing the reason for the hate speech” ReasonMeaningHate SpeechFilthy Words Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.” ReasonWisdomJustificationThinkDiscernmentRationalizationContemplate Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“What [Adam] Smith took from [David] Hume’s demonstration of the limits of reason, the absurdity of superstition, and the primacy of the passions was not a lesson of Buddhist-Stoical indifference but something more like a sense of Epicurean intensity—if we are living in the material world, then let us make it our material.” ReasonLiberalismSuperstitionEpicureanismAdam SmithDavid Hume Author:Adam Gopnik
“The reality of the gospel is greater than reason.” InspirationalReasonRealityChristianLife LessonsReligionHumourGospel Author:Lailah Gifty Akita