Alfred de Musset Quotes
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Iain McGilchrist
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
George Bernard Shaw
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Epictetus
The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
Anthony Rapp
The reason for anger is always fear.
Eloise Lownsbery
There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
Katee Sackhoff
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
William Jones
He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.
Ben Affleck
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset
