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 I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
 [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit read more 
 I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
 [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.] 
 Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the 
worse appear the better reason.  
 Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the 
worse appear the better reason. 
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
 He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and 
he who dares not, read more 
 He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and 
he who dares not, is a slave. 
 The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
 [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]  
 The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
 [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] 
 All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason:
 For why in man's matters is neither read more 
 All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason:
 For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.
  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:
   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.] 
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly read more
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
 But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
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 But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
  The better reason, to perplex and dash
   Maturest counsels.