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Reason
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract thought is independent of the wishes which move the thinker and of the aims for which he strives. | Socialism | p. 317 | Reason |
| It is vain to object that life and reality are not logical. Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. But logic is the only tool available to man for the comprehension of both. | Human Action | pp. 67-68; p. 67 | Reason |
| Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. | Human Action | p. 68; p. 68 | Reason |
| Logical thinking and real life are not two separate orbits. Logic is for man the only means to master the problems of reality. | Human Action | p. 185; p. 185 | Reason |
| Man has only one tool to fight error: reason. | Human Action | p. 187; p. 187 | Reason |
| Man uses reason in order to choose between the incompatible satisfactions of conflicting desires. | Human Action | p. 173; p. 174 | Reason |
| Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible. | Interventionism | p. 89 | Reason |
| Reason is mans foremost equipment in the biological struggle for the preservation and expansion of his existence and survival. It would not have any function and would not have developed at all in the fools paradise. | Money, Method, and the Market Process | p. 35 | Reason |
| Reason is mans particular and characteristic feature. There is no need for praxeology to raise the question whether reason is a suitable tool for the cognition of ultimate and absolute truth. It deals with reason only as far as it enables man to act. | Human Action | p. 177; p. 177 | Reason |
| Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. | Omnipotent Government | p. 121 | Reason |