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  1. Gail Carson Levine _ Ella Enchanted

    I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
    book-quotelovereasonstrength

  2. William Blake _ The Marriage of Heaven and

    Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
    book-quotelifereasonenergy

  3. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the threat of hell or the promise of paradise; we merely have to be reminded that it is we ourselves -- that is, the most mature and reasonable parts of us {seldom present in the midst of our crises and obsessions} -- who want to lead the sort of life which we once imagined supernatural beings demanded of us. An adequate evolution of morality from superstition to reason should mean recognizing ourselves as the authors of our own moral commandments.
    book-quotelifegodreason

  4. Alister E. McGrath _ Mere Apologetics: How to Help

    Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.
    book-quoterationalismfaithreason

  5. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C.S.

    Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.
    book-quotereasonlogicevangelism

  6. Alister E. McGrath _ Mere Apologetics: How to Help

    For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
    book-quoterationalismfaithreason

  7. Ellis Peters _ Brother Cadfael's Penance

    The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
    book-quotereasonstubbornnessrationality

  8. Watchman Nee _ The Spirit of Wisdom and

    The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
    book-quoteknowledgewisdomreason

  9. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole: And Other

    Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery-the frontier that drives the economies of the future-would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.
    book-quoteresearchreasonintellect

  10. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
    book-quotereasonprejudice

  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ Emile or On Education

    Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are adopted. Give nature time to work before you take over her business, lest you interfere with her dealings. You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing, and that a child ill taught is further from virtue than a child who has learnt nothing at all. You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day? He will never be so busy again all his life long. Plato, in his Republic, which is considered so stern, teaches the children only through festivals, games, songs, and amusements. It seems as if he had accomplished his purpose when he had taught them to be happy; and Seneca, speaking of the Roman lads in olden days, says, "They were always on their feet, they were never taught anything which kept them sitting." Were they any the worse for it in manhood? Do not be afraid, therefore, of this so-called idleness. What would you think of a man who refused to sleep lest he should waste part of his life? You would say, "He is mad; he is not enjoying his life, he is robbing himself of part of it; to avoid sleep he is hastening his death." Remember that these two cases are alike, and that childhood is the sleep of reason.The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. You fail to see that this very facility proves that they are not learning. Their shining, polished brain reflects, as in a mirror, the things you show them, but nothing sinks in. The child remembers the words and the ideas are reflected back; his hearers understand them, but to him they are meaningless.Although memory and reason are wholly different faculties, the one does not really develop apart from the other. Before the age of reason the child receives images, not ideas; and there is this difference between them: images are merely the pictures of external objects, while ideas are notions about those objects determined by their relations."
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  12. Robert G. Ingersoll _ Some Mistakes of Moses

    As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear.It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason.
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