Reason Quotes
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The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
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Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.
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Reason speaks and feeling bites.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
