Quotes About Reason

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil.

15. "Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans," Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. "History, Philosophy, and Poetry. History is human memory, the examination of what came before us. Philosophy is human reason, or an attempt to make sense of what is. Poetry is human imagination, seeking to express what is, even while dreaming of what might be. History, Philosophy, and Poetry—that's what sets humans apart from animals.

Poetic truths defend the sovereignty of one's ideological identity by taking license with reality and fact. They work by moral intimidation rather than by reason, so that even to question them is heresy.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

It's Friday. That's one reason to celebrate. Also, it's the first day in a long time when no one declared they're running for president.

Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in Merchant for a reason. You may not see it yet. But there is purpose. Father always has a purpose.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

She amuses you? she repeated. And that is reason for marriage? An excellent one, he agreed. I believe I shall not know a moment's dullness with Henry.

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

It was a strange moment, beyond time. It was unreasonable, what was happening, what was about to happen, but it was a moment beyond reason.

You are, after all, a marquess. I sometimes forget that I am such an exalted personage, he said. I suppose that is the reason you are marrying me, Diana, is it? So that you may be a marchioness? Yes, she said. You mean you thought there might be some other reason?

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go. The adrenaline that let our ancestors escape the sabertooth tiger sears into the meat of our brains the extraordinary, the loud. The shrieking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.

What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and that is the precognition of the spiritual side of the world and, within this recognition, the condition of my own spiritual state.

the dark heart of the story that is all the reason for its telling?