The Reason Quotes

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.