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Will & Reason

by angela on April 1, 2009

“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
Albert Camus

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

by angela on February 2, 2009

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

by angela on January 7, 2009

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
-Thomas Jefferson

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When everyone thinks alike, there isn’t much thinking taking place.

by angela on October 23, 2008

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is a proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. The principle is condemnation before investigation.

by angela on October 22, 2008

Herbert Spencer

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