"Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values."

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Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

Margaret Benson

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“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”
“Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.”
“Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!”
“In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.”

Source : "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.
“Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.”

Source : Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.”
“Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doâ€”itâ€™s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.”
“A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.”

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