The Reason Quotes
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.
You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you
I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.