Reason Quotes
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This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
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Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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I felt like they were frustrated and they have a reason to be frustrated. Things didn't happen for them and it's a frustrating thing for these young kids.
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Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
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There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, and that's because they're paying attention.
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Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.
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If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.
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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.
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Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.
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The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.
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Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
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Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.
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The only reason I'll be going is to see if I can rattle Roger Clemens.
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I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.
