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Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Law is mind without reason.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in a phase in which this output is no longer sufficiently visible or tangible. Youth unemployment is still far too high, we still haven't solved our currency problem and living conditions in Europe are drifting apart. That is one reason why critics say that our Europe is based on yesteryear's model.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.