“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”
Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea
Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
Nausea (1938)
“A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.”
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Edward Coke (1552–1634) English lawyer and judge
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
Institutes of the Laws of England
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199709251614.JAA15718@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Thomas Paine book Rights of Man
Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 10
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (1802–1874) English Whig politician and judge
Labouchere v. Dawson (1872), L. R. 13 Eq. Ca. 325.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
Context: To all this, someone is sure to object that life ought to subject itself to reason, to which we will reply that nobody ought to do what he is unable to do, and life cannot subject itself to reason. "Ought, therefore can," some Kantian will retort. To which we shall demur: "Cannot, therefore ought not." And life cannot submit itself to reason, because the end of life is living and not understanding.
“Human reason is snatching everything to itself, leaving nothing for faith.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
Reported in Walter Nigg, The Heretics: Heresy Through the Ages (1962) (who cites Adolph Hausrath 1895 as a source)
Context: The faith of simplicity is mocked, the secrets of Christ profaned, questions on the highest things are impertinently asked, the Fathers scorned because they were disposed to conciliate rather than solve such problems. Human reason is snatching everything to itself, leaving nothing for faith. It falls upon things which are beyond it... desecrates sacred things more than clarifies them. It does not unlock mysteries and symbols, but tears them asunder; it makes nought of everything to which it cannot gain access and disdains to believe all such things.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 835
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)