Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.[Если допустить, что жизнь человеческая может управляться разумом, – то уничтожится возможность жизни.]
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reins.
If life is given us for life’s sake, there is no reason for living.[Eсли жизнь для жизни нам дана, незачем жить.]
If a man mistakes, reason with him kindly and point out his misconception. If you fail, blame yourself, or no one.[Εἰ μὲν σφάλλεται, διδάσκειν εὐμενῶς καὶ τὸ παρορώμενονδεικνύναι. εἰ δὲ ἀδυνατεῖς, σεαυτὸν αἰτιᾶσθαι ἢ μηδὲ σεαυτόν.]
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
