Quotes About Reason

I went to Japan to experience a new culture, and I would recommend that any footballer does that. But the main reason I went was to play football.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.

Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

I think a letter is more ceremonial than anything. Personally, I think it's just a reason to go talk to the referee.

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

The comparison to Willie Beamen - that was pretty harsh, but everything happens for a reason and like I said, you can't control it.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

I've never gotten into a heated argument with people. Heat diffuses reason.

I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

There is no Cartesian dualistic person, with a mind separate from and independent of the body, sharing exactly the same disembodied transcendent reason with everyone else, and capable of knowing everything about his or her mind simply by self-reflection. Rather, the mind is inherently embodied, reason is shaped by the body, and since most thought is unconscious, the mind cannot be known simply by self-reflection. Empirical study is necessary.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

The only reason for life is life. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Eternal Death Not fulfilling these relations, the man is undoing the right of his own existence, destroying his raison d'être, making of himself a monster, a live reason why he should not live.

No One Loves Because He Sees Why Where a man does not love, the not-loving must seem rational. For no one loves because he sees why, but because he loves. No human reason can be given for the highest necessity of divinely created existence. For reasons are always from above downward.

Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do something toward the taking of it. She was able in no small measure to order her own thoughts. Without any theory of self-rule, she yet ruled her Self. She was not one to slip about in the saddle, or let go the reins for a kick and a plunge or two. There was the thing that should be, and the thing that should not be; the thing that was reasonable, and the thing that was absurd.

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except the pain and the foreknowledge of pain. Besides, was it possible, when you were actually suffering it, to wish for any reason whatever that your own pain should increase? But that question was not answerable yet.

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), whose Egyptian museum in San Jose took up an entire city block. It stressed the virtues of reason and science while also suggesting that ancient Egyptian wisdom would allow its followers to re-lease the hidden powers inherent in man.

Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.