Reason Quotes
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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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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See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.
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There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.
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Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.
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A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.
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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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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
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When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.
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I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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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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If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
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Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
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The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?
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The reason the rest of us remember, like, when John Lennon died, is because it's a moment when adrenaline is surging.
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The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.
