Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. - Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm: "Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."

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Ability	Animal	Arriving	Belongs
Contradiction	Essentially	Faculty	Former
Grasping	Help	Human	Instrument
Intelligence	Latter	Manipulate	Manipulating
Mans	Part	Reason	Successfully
Thought	Truth	World

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