Pastoral Resources

The dose makes the poison.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.