“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference…”

— Blaise Pascal , Pensées

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Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011) US American Zen Teacher

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“To believe that any action based on an ignorance of fact can possibly succeed, is to abandon the use of reason.”

Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist

Give Me Liberty (1936)

“There is no doubt that we have a different vision of the past. What’s important is that I see no reasons for any kind of conflicts in the future. We have no interests that could be contradictory in the future.”

Ivica Dačić (1966) Serbian politician

Source: "Ivica Dacic: Forced solutions don’t lead to stability of the region" in The Srpska Times https://thesrpskatimes.com/ivica-dacic-forced-solutions-dont-lead-to-stability-of-the-region/ (18 September 2018)

“I see too many proofs of the imperfection of human reason, to entertain wonder or intolerance at any difference of opinion on any subject; and acquiesce in that difference as easily as on a difference of feature or form; experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can, when we cannot do all we would wish.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to John Randolph (1 December 1803), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 109 http://files.libertyfund.org/files/806/0054-10_Bk.pdf, pp. 54
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“But what, Phaedrus, is the contrary of a dream if not some other dream?… A dream of vigilance and tension dreamt by Reason herself!—And what would such a Reason dream?—If a Reason were to dream—a Reason hard, erect, eyes armed, mouth closed, as though mistress of her lips—would not the dream she dreamt be what we see now—this world of exact forces and studied illusions?—A dream, a dream, but a dream interpenetrated with symmetries, all order, acts and sequences!”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

Socrates, p. 35
L'Âme et la danse (1921)

“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

Aristotle book Posterior Analytics

I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics

“Our faith isn't based on what we see,our faith is based on who God is.”

Mercy chinwo (1990) Nigerian Gospel Singer

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=mercy+chinwo+quotes&oq=mer&aqs=chrome.2.69i59j46i39j69i59j69i60j69i57j69i60l2j46i67i131i433.3786j0j4&client=ms-android-transsion-tecno-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=FJRzFAIjDjdqlM. Mercy Chinwo speaking at entrepreneur.ng