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> [Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/clearly-it-is-not-reason-that-has-failed-what-has-failed-as-it-has/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

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## More by Allen Wheelis

> [“Matter would have the universe a uniform dispersion, motionless, complete. Spirit would have an earth, a heaven and a hell, whirl and conflict, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/matter-would-have-the-universe-a-uniform-dispersion-motionless/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/the-sequence-is-suffering-insight-will-action-change/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/so-briefly-do-we-raise-our-heads-so-quick-sink-back-for-a-moment-we/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [“Dirty old men are dirty because they are hanging on to life. Sex is the life force, and the nearer they come to death,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/dirty-old-men-are-dirty-because-they-are-hanging-on-to-life-sex-is/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [“I remember a spring night in a school auditorium, during the rehearsal of a play. I am thirteen. I am weary of the farce,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/i-remember-a-spring-night-in-a-school-auditorium-during-the-rehearsal/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/the-spirit-of-science-is-not-to-prejudge-but-to-give-any-honest-query/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/freedom-is-the-awareness-of-alternatives-and-of-the-ability-to-choose/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/clearly-it-is-not-reason-that-has-failed-what-has-failed-as-it-has/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/certainty-is-not-to-be-had-but-as-we-learn-this-we-become-not-more/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/desire-is-endless-and-unappeasable-is-most-intense-where-most/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

> [One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wheelis/one-can-often-recognize-herd-animals-by-their-tendency-to-carry-bibles/)

[Allen Wheelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wheelis/)

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