"Humans fear reason, but they ought to..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
“Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”