When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and feeling; when one encounters bewilderment, one must appeal to reason; and when one meets perplexities that reason still cannot resolve, one has no choice but to appeal once again to instinct and feeling.
When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and sensibility; when one encounters confusion, one must appeal to reason; and when one runs into perplexity that reason still cannot resolve, one can only fall back once more on instinct and sensibility. When does one have to begin using reason, and in what circumstances can one give up reason again? That seems impossible to sort out. Still, once one has appealed to reason and reason has already given a definite answer, then if one still wants to evade it, that is painful; just as it is painful to stubbornly keep searching within reason when reason…
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