Reason Quotes
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Anything I do, I always have a reason for.
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Lewes was waiting, always Lewes, making profound and idiotic comments on everything, and wanting to sit up half the night and reason. Reason! He was sick of reason. He wanted some one he could be romantic with, and sentimental with, and poetic, and—yes, religious with, if he felt like it, without having to feel ashamed.
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Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
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You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
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The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.
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We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.
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I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.
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Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.
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There's people back there, whatever the reason, they still have it out for JamesOn, ... Some people there haven't forgiven him. They can't look past the situation, and it's too bad. I'm talking about adults. JamesOn made a bad, bad mistake. It was out of character. But he's admitted to it. He's never run from it. He's answered every question about it, and more than that, he's been a great kid. I mean, let me tell you -- he is a special, special kid.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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The whole notion of one person being enough for everything gets instantly challenged when you start to talk with somebody about wanting more or of wanting something else. They take it personally, feel like a failure or feel that they lack something, so you don't talk about it because you don't want to hurt, offend, or scare the other person. You also don't want to be rejected or have them leave you, whatever the reason.
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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
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There are two ways to die here,’ the fighter concluded. ‘You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
