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Reason
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
理性无法建立价值观，而它认为自己可以建立价值观的信念，是最愚蠢、最有害的幻觉。
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
一个聪明的人的标志是他们有能力通过运用理性来控制自己的情绪。
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
你有没有过这样的感觉，我们举行选举的唯一原因就是要看看民意调查结果是否正确?
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
我喜欢那些我可能没有写过的作家的想法。作家的存在是有原因的……给我写信。
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. but my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
我的痛苦可能是某人大笑的原因。但我的笑声绝不能成为别人痛苦的原因。
The man who listens to Reason is lost. Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
听道理的人是迷失的。理智奴役一切头脑不够坚强，无法驾驭理智的人。
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
必须指导我们的审议、辩论和决定的是理智，而不是激情。
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
恐惧无法消除，但它可以平静而不恐慌;它可以通过理性和评价得到缓解。
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
我不是典型的男主角。这主要是因为一个原因:你可能已经注意到，我没有头发。
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
退缩不是逃避，停留也不是明智的行为，因为恐惧比希望更有理由。
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
理性不是自动的。否认它的人是无法被它征服的。别指望他们。让他们孤独。
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
世界之所以缺乏统一，破碎成一堆，是因为人与自己分裂了。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
人类之所以不听从我们，是因为他们看到了我们眼睛底下的泥。
There is a good reason why natural water never runs at night.
有一个很好的理由说明为什么天然的水从不在夜间流动。
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
每一个说谎的好理由，都有一个说真话的更好的理由。
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
砖墙的存在是有原因的。砖墙不是用来阻挡我们的。砖墙的存在是为了告诉我们，我们有多么渴望得到我们想要的东西。
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。