“Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?”
“Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt”
“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
“I don t understand how can people hold faith and reasoning in the same head. To my understanding, faith, like love, is blind.”
“Reason. The point where man begins to find that he exists.”
“Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?”
“We think there s a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It s not exactly math. People aren t numbers. Everybody knows life doesn t make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn.”
“That s a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.”
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.”
“In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.”