“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
“My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep,But a continuance of enduring thought,Which then I can resist not: in my heartThere is a vigil, and these eyes but closeTo look within; and yet I live, and bearThe aspect and the form of breathing men.”
“Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.Death on her left.Devil on her right.”
“To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.”
“The sick ambitions are against the rational reasoning.”
“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.”