Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

Perhaps women are lied to more often because managers think they're not going to push back. If you're told, "We don't have the budget right now" and have no access to the budget to prove otherwise, there's not much you can do, but there's no reason why you can't ask if you can reassess in six months. Then, spend those six months chronicling every good thing you do so you return with a stack of data that proves you need that raise.

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Reason also is choice.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

... reason accepts no commandments.