The Reason Quotes

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

The dream of reason produces monsters

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

There's no reason to think that markets always drive people to what's good for them.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.