Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
For they conquer who believe they can.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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