Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Photography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't even know how many over the years. And it's sort of a cursed project, for lots of reasons. There's probably some pile somewhere of all these weird attempts, all these portraitures that can't get made.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Reason also is choice.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought