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Johanna Lindsey8
American writer 1952–2019Related quotes
“Somebody said
that Reason was dead.
Reason said: No,
I think not so.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
Dead Reasonable
Grooks
“I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.”
Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer
Source: Midnight
“Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 15.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Source: Saints and Sinners
Karl Popper book The Open Society and Its Enemies
Vol. 2, Ch. 24 "Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason"
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Context: I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).
