Quotes About Reason

I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.

You'll see a lot of actors doing adverts. There's a reason why. I could probably buy a castle if it were in somewhere like Lithuania. Not this country.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

The only reason I'm associated with 'the Boosh' is because Richard Ayoade, who was meant to be doing Bainbridge, couldn't do it because of something with Channel 4, so I ended up doing it.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.

Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

I am not a superstitious person.

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

The rationalist is not unaware of the animal impulses in man, and of the passions of man in society. The rationalist has long since abandoned the illusion that men, alone or in groups, are reasonable. He bets on the education of humanity, even if he is not sure he will win his wager.