Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me

The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle waitress.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits have been elusive at best - partly because the ostensible reasons for going war were unconnected with reality - no weapons of mass destruction, no connections with 9/11.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.