Quotes About Reason

for some disturbing reason, no one suggests that aliens may have assisted in building the Parthenon or Colosseum.)

Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST! And that thought just cracked me up.] It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals.

Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.' – Abigail

You can't fear dying when you have no reason to live.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

Reality trumps rationality.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Are the dead restored? The books say no, the night shouts yes. I am twenty, I have reached the age of reason

Math doesn't respond well to opinion.

Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison," he said, almost to himself. "There's only one reason I can think of that they might do that," Umar said. "That's if they are going to execute them." Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. "Well, that's a big comfort.

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

THERE IS GOOD REASON why Christian theologians consider theodicy the unsolvable theological issue. The reason is this: It is unsolvable.

I suggest that we must be defined not by our salvation but by our faith. The "Lordship Salvation" debate is frustrating because sometimes proponents on both sides make it sound as if "salvation" is the reason for our faith.43 That cannot be right. Salvation is a benefit of our faith gained by the grace of God; God is the reason for our faith.

Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.