Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Now I know a lot about NATO - NATO is obsolete, and the reason it's obsolete is because of the fact they don't focus on terrorism.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

One can always reason with reason.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.

One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.