Quotes About Reason

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

There's no mighty seat of reason which dwells within the brain. Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a backgroundwhich He already knew. The wall was blank. Then there was movement.

Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her

All gods have this problem, Hwi. In the perception of deeper needs, I must often ignore the immediate ones. Not addressing immediate needs is an offense to the young. Could you not reason with her and... Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

I will die four deaths—the death of the flesh, the death of the soul, the death of the myth and the death of reason. And all of these deaths contain the seed of resurrection.

Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough.

A razão é a primeira vítima das emoções fortes.

They shall not escape their fate through powers of reason! Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

There Is the Effect of Moonlight very poetic and the first time he used the telephone he yelled the reason being so he said because my friend is so very far away and if you think I'm going to tell you what else I saw you're crazy as hell

My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live.

I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

Because of the cold blowing up from the water, I put on my gloves, sighed for no good reason, as one is inclined to do at night beside a river, but then I wanted to walk on.

For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.