Reason Quotes
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
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Look, if the reason you two aren't speaking doesn't make sense, then the reason you contact him again doesn't have to make sense, either. If nothing makes sense, act accordingly.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.
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We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.
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There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.
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Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.
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It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
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I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.
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I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.
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I hope they do find a reason (for his death), so we don't see this again. You hear about people passing out or dehydrating or cramping. But when you hear something like this, it's not right at all.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
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Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
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This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith
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There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive.
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason.
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Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.
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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
