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If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.