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Comment by sheepmaster: ¶
My personal favourite would be “Pure reason may never prevail”…
Comment by ssp: ¶
Another one…
what I remain a bit uncomfortable with is that ‘Pure Reason’ sounds a bit too Kantian to me, i.e. like it were a translation of ‘Reine Vernunft’. But it remains the best sounding translation I’ve seen.
Comment by d.w.: ¶
“Being purely sensible” is really awkward (though valid) phrasing in common conversational English… “Pure reason must not prevail” works best poetically, with its near iambic rhythm.
Comment by kingkong: ¶
Pure reason sounds a little off to me so I suggest sheer reason instead,that is seems to be more to the point of the German, so all in all I am a bit undecided between sheer reason must never prevail and sheer reason may never prevail but I thinkthe second one is closest to it
