Reasonable I like to read. There are usually around four or five books lying around my house with which I am currently having some kind of relationship. Recently, I came across this quote by Blaise Pascal, a 15 th century French mathematician, philosopher, and inventor: There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. This is a rather provocative statement. I really like it – probably because it places me in the reasonable category. But what does it mean to be reasonable? According to Merriam-Webster, to be reasonable one must possess sound judgment. Some synonyms for reasonable are: analytical, coherent, logical, rational, sensible, and well-grounded. This describes absolutely no one running most countries, but that’s beside the point. To say categorically, that someone is only reasonable if they are eit...