Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end... THIS is achievement

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.