By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment and is not improved is surely a therapeutic failure.
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
In my books I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it it's at the extreme end of their experience.
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet then something is clearly wrong.
I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
We each own one car and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be but it's not extravagant.
Man being reasonable must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.