Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.

The only reason I can't recommend heroin to kids is because the effects wear off.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

The only reason to write is from love.

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.

The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things.  Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while?  Do this and eventually you will do great things.

The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

The only reason I left was to protect you.

The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.