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#human reason

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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.


Claude Levi-Strauss


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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.


Maimonides


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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.


Charles de Secondat


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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.


Charles de Secondat


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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.


Nicolaus Copernicus


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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.


Thomas Mann


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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.


John Chrysostom


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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.


Adam Weishaupt


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