Reason Quotes
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Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
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The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
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Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
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That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.
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I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
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We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.
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Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
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One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
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For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
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This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
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If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems like our dependency on these systems is so great that the room for maneuver as it were is very small. So that is problematic.
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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
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Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
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Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.
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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
