1. For a rounded personality, reason and ego should co-exist, with reason being first among the equals .
2. The best defense against reason is ridicule.
3. Reason for the woes of the world is that man cannot live by reason alone.
4. Reason for resistance to the change is the habit of lethargic minds to adhere to the familiar ways of comforting routine due to the fear of unknown.
5. A life of reason requires constant vigilance against convenient prejudices and shallow beliefs. And the effort is worth the trouble. Even a common life becomes an uncommon adventure of daring, search and surprise.
6. Life is the way you reason about it.
7. It is disconcerting to live in an ambience of unreason.
8. A reasonably good life requires a cool temper and a warm heart.
9. Reason is a persuation that an idea is true or believable based on information, experience or interpretation. A reasonable person is one with whom his peers eventually agree. In the final analysis, what is reasonable is believed by the sensible people in a specific age. Its definition changes with time and people’s convictions formed by the accumulated knowledge.
10. The value of reason is to make the educated mentally courageous to doubt received wisdom, think for themselves, liberate them from the hold of worn out traditions and challenge the authority, if it is unreasonable.
11. Reason, passion and imagination: fullness oflife is in possessing them in right proportions.
12. Absolute clarity of thought is the absolute absence of emotion, possible only in Mathematics.
13. Precise norms of Mathematics and rules of chess are man’s rational compliments to the inexorable laws of nature. In Mathematics and chess, arbitrary and absolute powers are assigned to numbers and pieces, which are inviolate. Formulations of equations and rules of game follow pre-determined paths oflogical thinking and movements with limitless permutations on the same theme. Such order on a set course is impossible in human life.
14. Only talent can recognize genius.
15. Life is a constant hassle between being reasonable or practical. People generally choose to be practical for benefit.
16. Any miracle and mystical vision is possible to any person, who throws reason overboard and is keen to believe in inexplicable things out of awe and fear.
17. In living, emotions may direct reasJn. In thinking, reason must dictate emotions.
18. The best way to win an argument is to attack the person, not his reasons.
19. People refuse to think to live a conforming life within the warmth and protection of the horde.
20. Thinking is subverse. There are, therefore, all sorts of enticements and threats to rely on the received truth, as compulsory.

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