"Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created"

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Source : John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

John Ralston Saul

#Inspirational Quotes #Problem Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.”
“My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!”
“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.”
“The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.”
“Who can sleep on the night that God became man?”
“The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'”
“The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.”
“I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”

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