intellectual coherence Quotes

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.