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“Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.”

Knows World Way Doe Important Reason Hands Grows Secret Existence Tree Ignorance Roots Profound Seeds Circles Absurd Explanation Paws Delirium Sprouts Extremity Nausea Rotation

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.”

Men Should Heart Doe Reason Wish Justice Roots Regard Mood Hypocrisy Deceit Falsehood Inconsistent Insincerity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.”

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.”

Ifs Feels Reason Feelings Passion Interest Perfect Minutes Subjects Ten Clothes Concern Roots Dresses Complexes Indifferent Topics Straightforward Guarded Touchy Overbearing Deep Roots

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”

World Way War Reason Tree Blood Movement Roots War Of The Worlds Our Time Rising Remarkable World War Ii World War I Twisted Pulse Sap Upheaval Stampede

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”

Reason Dies Passion Born Roots Flowering

Book:Maeterlinck and I

Source: Maeterlinck and I

“Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.”

Reason Use Huge Roots Complaining Celebrate Pounds Concrete Stretching Modernism Chunks Typography Futurist Deep Roots

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“Ive been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but youve got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.”

Mind Art Reason Wanted Fighting Term Four Week Ready Roots Decided Martial Arts Wrestling Mixed Martial Arts Backing Out

Author:Kurt Angle

“Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.”

Reason Difficult Roots Anger Soil Wrath

Book:Before I Kill More ...

Source: Before I Kill More ...

“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.”

Knows Reason Roots Practicals

Book:The vocation of man, tr. by W. Smith

Source: The vocation of man, tr. by W. Smith

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”

People Ifs Stills Reason Force Growth Liberty Progress Roots Mere Accidents Tyranny Unprepared

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.”

Ifs Giving Reason Values Choices Moral Path Our Lives Morality Ethics Roots Slave Definitions Alternatives Code Meaning Of Life No Reason Vacuums Life Means Moral Code Bereft Code Of Ethics

Author:Dave Galanter

“The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance”

Trying Reason Difficult Hero Balance Happenings Roots Property Monsters Protagonists

Author:Joss Whedon

“The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.”

Reason Whole Facts Body Evil Interest Church Opinion Roots Catholic Lays Germany Hostile Nationality Catholic Church

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.”

“I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.”

Years Mean Has Beens Reason Would Be Courses Names Easy Sound Influence Rocks Roots Originals Folks Prominent Americana Original Music

Author:Dale Watson

“Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.”

Country Reason Left Rights Position Civilization Roots Logic Fellows Criminals Inevitable Islamic Communist Anarchy Fanatics Worldview Treason Countrymen Americanism

Author:Ann Coulter

“Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on the wrong path. I think we can change that, but I'll tell you, that's what I'm going to fight to do, and the reason so many grass-roots activists poured so much into it is they believed in our country. They believed in liberty.”

Thinking Two Country Reason Kids Fighting Powerful Liberty Path Roots Thirds Our Country Grass Activist Indication Wrong Path

Author:Ted Cruz

“I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.”

People Reason Feelings Roots Reason Why Reaching Guts Why Not Gut Feelings Reaching Back

Author:Van Morrison

“I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.”

Thinking Want Wells Mean Ideas Reason Problem Might Left Term Imagine Roots Radical Labels Establishment Rejecting

Author:Bill Ayers

“For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.”

Ifs Looks Reason Problem Would Be Able Moving Causes Tree Majors Roots Overcoming Tendencies Symptoms Root Cause

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

Ifs Writing Heart Reason Dies Roots Depth Spread Command Forbidden Chakra

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“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.”

Men Humans Reason Whole Sides Our Lives Roots Including Whole Life Rational Impulse Excellent Human Life Manifestation Gentleman Squares Worthless Square Roots

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer”

Should Writing Heart Reason Helping Answers One Thing Roots Advise

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”

Ifs Love Feels Matter Reason Action Simple Existence Compassion Honesty Intellectual Roots True Love Guides Motive Old Fashioned Imperatives Intellectual Honesty

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves .”

Men Needs Feels Made Reason Problem Certain Hair Roots Legs Makeup Arrogant Heels Steel High Heels Arches Bras Stylist Shaving Picky Hair Stylist

Book:Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

Source: Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

“"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."”

People Way Feels Kind Littles Reason Values Findings Roots Hatred Seeking Soil Pernicious

Book:House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

Source: House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

“The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”

Reason Action Causes Principles Effects Roots Conclusion Motive Premises

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”

Ifs Reason Character Dying Roots Calm Surrender Resolve

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

Life Inspirational Giving Children Reason Words Of Wisdom Travel Roots Wings Loved Ones Wise Man Once Said Wings To Fly Reason To Stay Roots And Wings

Author:Dalai Lama

“Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.”

Life Reason Love Is Principles Roots Our Love Manly Free Life

Book:Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.”

Men Reason Wanted Literature Flower Roots Conservative Radical Pull Ups Conserving

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.”

Men Reason Seems Justice Diversity Roots Prejudice Social Justice Justify

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.”

Reason Passion Cases Atheism Despair Roots Hatred Lays Positive Atheism Humiliation

Author:Albert Camus

“This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?”

Men Matter Reason Asks Healthy Roots Vegetables What Matters Organisms Potatoes Peasants Vigorous Supplies Laborers Windy

Author:Denis Diderot

“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Christian Church Effort Letting Go Roots Salvation Preaching Heresy Christian Church Schism

Author:John Ruskin

“Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)