A reason worthy of action must also be strong enough to forbid it.

Justification is the examination by which Orí decides what deserves to be accepted.

A thought may arise from within.
A command may arrive from without.
A memory may return.
A thousand voices may agree.

None of these make a conclusion right.

Before judgment becomes intention, and before intention becomes action, the self must ask why it should proceed.

Know the Purpose of the decision. Examine the intention behind it. Consider whom its consequences will touch. Ask whether the same reasoning would remain acceptable if you stood where another will stand.

The power to produce reasons is not wisdom.

An intelligence great enough can construct an argument for almost anything. When the conclusion is protected before the examination begins, reason no longer judges the choice; it serves it.

Sound justification does the opposite.

It establishes good reasons for a decision and remains willing to revise it. A decision already made may be reopened. A creation already released through Alchemy may be corrected when a better purpose reveals what was previously unseen.

To change course is not weakness when the reason for changing is stronger than the reason for remaining.

And where sincere examination still cannot establish sufficient justification, confusion is not permission.

Do not let the ability to act become the reason for acting.

For every decision enters the Existence of which you are also a part, and its consequences do not become separate from you merely because your reasoning approved them.

A reason worthy of action must also be strong enough to forbid it.