Reason Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
