Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

The main reason for healing is love.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

The only reason I left was to protect you.

The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

The only reason you're undefeated at WrestleMania is because you've never faced me at WrestleMania.