#2,877

There are arguments of increasing validity, but, in short, no argument in any field spares us the final leap.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,828

We are fully convinced only by the idea that does not need arguments to convince us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,813

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451

#2,806

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,795

The ultimate reality is not that of the object constructed by reason, but that of the voice answered by sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,783

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,751

Sensibility is a compass less susceptible of going crazy or misleading than is “reason.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,722

The philosopher’s intuitions sometimes dazzle us; his ratiocinations make us bristle with objections.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,666

The root of reactionary thought is not distrust of reason but distrust of the will.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,656

Even when it cannot be an act of reason, an option should be an act of the intelligence.
There are no compellingly demonstrable options, but there are stupid options.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,563

The opposite of the absurd is not reason but happiness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,251

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man’s goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#2,164

What is “rational” consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex.
Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 352

#1,734

Traditional technology used to educate, because the mastery of it transmitted gestures integrated into a way of life; the teaching of rationalist technology merely instructs, by transmitting gestures alone.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,597

I trust less in the arguments of reason than in the antipathies of intelligence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 265

#1,391

There are words for deceiving others, like “rational.”
And others, like “dialectic,” for deceiving oneself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 237

#1,334

Reason is no substitute for faith, just as color is no substitute for sound.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,295

Ratiocinations carry themselves with more airs, grow more haughty, walk with more insolence, the further they distance themselves from their origin.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,294

Everyone examines a ratiocination more carefully than the evidence sustaining it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 223

#1,263

Reactionary thought has been accused of irrationalism because it refuses to sacrifice the canons of reason to the prejudices of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219