The Reason Quotes
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
There’s definitely times when you’re frustrated for whatever reason, but that happens on fifty million dollar movies when you have a huge trailer, so who cares?
For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.
There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.
The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.
For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.
We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.