H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Spheres Quotes, Reason Quotes

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

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Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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