Quotes About Reason

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

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

You have to give people a reason to believe that, under your leadership, America will be better. Rick Santorum has done that.

You have to be really, really confident in your decision to marry somebody. I don't think my parents were stupid, but I do think maybe it was rushed. But if they hadn't gotten married, my sister and I wouldn't be here. I think everything happens for a reason.

You have to be really, really confident in your decision to marry somebody. I don't think my parents were stupid, but I do think maybe it was rushed. But if they hadn't gotten married, my sister and I wouldn't be here. I think everything happens for a reason. I've always believed that.

As the country gets to know me more, they will see the reason I care so much about Russia is I understand why they thought to help Donald Trump.

It's really fun being a douchebag but it feels very satisfying to be a douchebag for a reason.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

God is, or he is not. Which way should we incline? Reason cannot answer.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Do you not know the cause and reason of their coming?" They did not, the people replied. "They adore a certain Covetous Deity," Hatuey explained, "whose cravings are not to be satisfied by a few moderate offerings, but they may answer his Adoration and Worship, demand many unreasonable things of us, and use their utmost endeavors to subjugate and afterwards murder us.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

In his critique of reason, Nietzsche accomplished nothing less than the proof that all cognition is local in character and that, in imitating the divine eye, no human observer is able to go as far as really transcending his own location.

For him, humans were born with potential and, given the use of reason and the right upbringing/education, could be ethically good. This was the very opposite of what would become the Christian view under St Augustine and the notion of original sin.

The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.