Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
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