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“With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.”

Thinking Stills Feelings Spirit Limits Claims Lays Rational Originality Boldness Profundity

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.”

People Body Order Limits Authority Court Rational Latter Legislature

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.”

Humans May Art Different Together Law Quality Limits Opposites Distance Boundaries Rational Fixed Enjoyment Consistent Contradiction Providence Gratification Passing Away

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”

“When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.”

Years Sometimes Pain Emotional Months Limits Prison Sentences Rational Minors Tickets Traffic Offense Emotional Pain

Author:David D. Burns

“It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.”

World Stills Self Views Leader Limits Rational Regimes Preservation Twisted Calculations Self Preservation World View

Author:Barack Obama

“Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality”

People Force Limits Rational Normality

Author:Hiroya Oku

“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?”