Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Our love is the reason romance was created.

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

Our reason is our law.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Our schedules haven't permitted us to do shows in a while and now we're gonna do it but that's it. It's cool, we'll see what happens, I'm just excited to do it. We never broke up, there's no reason to, why would I? We don't have to break up.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.