No Reason Quotes

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Law is mind without reason.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)