The Reason Quotes
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.
I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.
The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.
For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.
My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.
I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.
When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.
Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.
The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.
There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.
Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.
The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.