1,806 Quotes About Reason


  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    If your pet is dying in pain, you will be condemned for cruelty if you do not summon the vet to give him a general anaesthetic from which he will not come round. But if your doctor performs exactly the same merciful service for you when you are dying in pain, he runs the risk of being prosecuted for murder.

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  • Author Sally Rooney
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    They were attended only by the people who wanted to be the kind of people who attend them.

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  • Author Janet Fitch
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    But they weren’t small children, they were women, they were admiring someone they didn’t know the first thing about. Look at the hag Truth for once, college girl.

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  • Author Sally Rooney
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    They were attended only by people who wanted to be the kind of people who attended them.

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  • Author Cliff James
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    It insists on our absolute belief in unverifiable creeds and, in return, promises a reward that can only be verified after we cease to exist. By demanding the unconditional renunciation of our reason in this way, bad-faith prevents us from living an authentic, intentional life: it anaesthetises our integrity.

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