The Reason Quotes

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

If I play, it will be for one reason: my fans.

The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I'll give you reason to have them.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.