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The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

The dream of reason produces monsters

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated. It only speaks of "Sin and Salvation" and not of the COSMIC GOSPEL that transforms all things.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.