“The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.”
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) French academic
As quoted in Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry (trans. Robert Kerr, 1790), Preface, p. xiv.
“A brain with no heart and no reasoning… well, nothing is more meaningless.”
— Melissa de la Cruz, book Masquerade
Source: Masquerade
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