Sentence examples for thing of reason from inspiring English sources

"A thorough handling that the Lutherans have no routes to their faith in the Scriptures to show their God as either a mere hallucination or a thing of reason") 1670: Kurtze Erörterung Der Frage Ob die Lutheraner in Schlesien der in Instrumento Pacis denen Augsburgischen Confessions-Verwandten verliehenen Religions-Freyheit sich getrösten können.

A principled person does the right thing out of reason and the general consideration of how a human being should act.

There are a couple of caveats about that finding, since the majority of the cinema attendees were already experienced opera-goers, and were choosing the film rather than the real thing for reasons of cost, accessibility, and comfort.

"In many organizations, IT spends much of its time being 'the department of no,' where they tell employees that they can't do things for reasons of manageability or security.

But that is a different thing from the suspension of reason".

But that is a different thing from the suspension of reason and critical intelligence — faculties that tell us that something is not necessarily the case simply because it is written down somewhere or repeated over and over.

"Honestly, when you put three ducks in a row and one of these kids is doing their own thing, sometimes the voice of reason wins out.

He also insists that: "fictitious things … or beings of reason, are not said to endure truly and properly, because they do not exist" (DM L 1.1).

But then grown-up humans also do these things under the guidance of reason; reason in the adult human case is the craftsman of impulse (DL VII 85 6).

This magically turned the stream of largely positive stories into a river of negative stories under the guise of things like: "the voice of reason" or the "wake up call".

If you tend to avoid that sort of thing, no reason to stop now (1 25).