Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

The world is not a rational place.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Things happen for a reason.

Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.

This then is the age of reason.

This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.