Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
We live on the leash of our senses.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.