Reason Quotes

• Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

  

  William Wake
  • Knows
  • Conditions
  • Prayers

• I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Childhood

• He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Nice
  • Simple
  • Clear

• Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Belief
  • Prove
  • Ordinary

• There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Reason
  • Motivated

• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Instant
  • Credulity

• It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Reason
  • Body
  • Attribute

• It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

  

  Plato
  • Reason
  • Beauty
  • Accept

• President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.

  

  Michael Ramirez
  • Determined
  • Deadline
  • Timetable

• If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Taboo

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
  • Husband
  • Acting

• When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Crush
  • Warrior
  • Holy

• The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.

  

  Craig A. Evans
  • Sacrifice
  • Champion
  • Obedience

• There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • People
  • Reason
  • Modern

• The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.

  

  Al Attles
  • Game
  • Reason
  • Won

• If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.

  

  Aaron Gillespie
  • Morning
  • Reason
  • Shot

• Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

  

  Alvin Plantinga
  • Power
  • Reason
  • Capacity

• One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Reason

• If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Economy
  • Elements
  • Opposites

• There is no reason why someone who is in doubt about the existence of God should not pray for help and guidance on this topic as in other matters. Some find something comic in the idea of an agnostic praying to a God whose existence he doubts. It is surely no more unreasonable than the act of a man adrift in the ocean, trapped if a cave, or stranded on a mountainside, who cries for help though he may never be heard or fires a signal which may never be seen.

  

  Anthony John Patrick Kenny
  • God
  • Reason
  • Existence

• Hours later I knew for certain I had felt the presence of this choking, slaving smell before, sometime when I was very young, inside my sleep, but this does not occur to me at the time. I come back out into the main room. I stand among the pictures and the light. I decide there’s no reason to report this, that I should not have come here, that I feel older than I ever had all through my blood. I feel dizzy in the middle of the photographs of her, the mirrors, a silent catacomb of eyes. That’s when I realize I’m being recorded.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Light
  • Sleep
  • Presence

• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That's sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Challenges

• Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Reason
  • Marry
  • Consult

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