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We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as

We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

John Ralston Saul
Lying, Two, Quality
"The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

John Ralston Saul
Imagination, Progress, Quality

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

John Ralston Saul
Important, Quality, Citizens
John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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