reason

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Rene Descartes

Cockney Rhyming Slang

is a prophet, for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, it tells us what the future will be.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet... for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be' Arthur Schopenhauer

is a rebel to faith, just as passion is a rebel to reason.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. Thomas Browne

is an illusion that ignores its historical formation in the past, its precariousness in the present, and its fragility in the future.

The point of Foucault's genealogical historiographies is not to destroy reason, but to remind us that reason's assumption of its own necessity and universality may be an illusion that ignores its historical formation in the past, its precariousness in the present, and its fragility in the future. Correlatively, genealogy analyzes practices that were instituted in the name of reason but that threaten to harden into unquestioned but oppressive necessity'

is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them' (THN, 414... 2.2.3.4).

is and ought only to be, the servant of the passions.

Reason is, and ought only to be, the servant of the passions. (David Hume)

is as an instrument received directly from God, the sole instrument with which man can come to know himself and to know his relation to the universe.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.Leo Tolstoy

is as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consist principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consist principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

is, by itself, impotent to initiate or to prevent any action or volition.

The theme is a familiar one in Hume the impotence of reason by itself to initiate or to prevent any action or volition and it is clear what he means by reason in this instance. 'Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood', i.e.,

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