beware_of_unreason andru235 "Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind." --W. Collins [Persian Ecologues] =================================== "To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported." --Epictetus [Discourses] =================================== "Reason can wrestle / and overthrow terror." --Euripides [Iphigenia in Aulis] =================================== "We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide." --S. Johnson [Letter to James Boswell] =================================== "Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; in disobeying the latter we are made unhappy; in disobeying the former, fools." --B. Pascal [Pensees] =================================== "Say first, of God above or man below / What can we reason but from what we know?" --A. Pope [An Essay on Man] =================================== "In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals." --M. I. Seiden [The Paradox of Hate] =================================== "Reason is also choice." --J. Milton [Paradise Lost] =================================== "Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?" --A. Schopenhauer [Parerga and Paralipomena] =================================== "Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason alone can mitigate the cruelty of living." --Philip Rieff [Freud: The Mind of a Moralist] 050916 what's it to you? who go blather from