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Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Reason also is choice.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Reason is the life of the law.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.