Reason

“Más útiles son estas cosas que disputar acremente sobre el ente de razón, sobre la conexión de Dios con la posibilidad o imposibilidad de los posibles.”

“In short, nanotechnology is a method to solve problems by separating it into its smallest components.”

“The philosopher should perpetually dwell on those things which can be known.”

“Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.”

“One should not try to solve a problem via solving a more general problem.”

“The office and calling of a theologian is so wide, that no argument or controversy on any subject can be considered foreign to his profession.”

“The Declaration loses none of its authority under close analysis.”

“Elismerem, ez a feltevés valóban tetszetős... csak éppen semmi köze sincs az igazsághoz.”

“I’m like a sponge, so whatever I hear, I’m soaking it up and then I’m trying to figure it out for myself.”

“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”

“At its best, the philosophical discipline causes us to think straight and to question misdirection in the propositions of others.”

“To understand a culture is to say to yourself, If I’d been living then I could conceive that I could have believed that and remained rational and been quite a decent sort of person.”

“If you think carefully, it will succeed.”

“All the nations of the world are made up of human beings, and of each and every human being there is one definition and one only: that they are rational.”

“There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations.”

“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.”

“The sport then was to challenge assumptions.”

“Es puntualmente tanta verdad, que la vemos con nuestros ojos los que vivimos en el Pirú; harto más manifiesta por la experiencia, de lo que nos pudiera ser por cualquier razón y demostración filosófica.”