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| Once the people begin to reason, all is lost | | Voltaire | |
| People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Prejudices are what fools use for reason. | | Voltaire | |
| Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle | | George Washington | |
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| Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. | | John Dryden | |
| Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. | | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. | | Ayn Rand | |
| Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it | | Blaise Pascal | |
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| The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. | | Doug Larson | |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason | | Blaise Pascal | |
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