Reason Quotes
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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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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
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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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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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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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If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' always, everywhere, and by all, as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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My wife always asks me why I don't make the bed. And I respond with the same reason why I don't tie my shoes after I take them off.
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Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.
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The only reason I'll be going is to see if I can rattle Roger Clemens.
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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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Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
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Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.
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I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.
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When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.
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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
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I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.
