Quotes About Reason

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

L'obsession de la rationalité est d'autant plus effrayante qu'elle ne répond plus guère à l'existence légitime de la raison, mais à la dictature de l'efficacité.

And if selfishness and a lack of sexual discernment was to be judged a good enough reason to murder someone, then the death rate would surely sky-rocket.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign of vilification.

Up there on Olympus, where he'd been raised, where the mountain of reason pierces the sky of the intellect, the talk was all of how the soul suffered if the senses were gratified. Polly Patch would not allow it. She claimed, as the Devil would, that the senses and the soul were one: that gratifying one was to gratify the other.

la guerra convierte esas evanescentes diferencias en un abismo insondable. La vida y la muerte dejan de ser especulaciones de la razón para transformarse en un dilema urgente, inmediato, desesperado. La vida pasa a ser un cristal frágil y la muerte una posibilidad cercana. Sin

La guerra suele poner en evidencia de manera brutal la sinrazón del sentido común.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

Dios es la razón principal de que el hombre no haya alcanzado la madurez.

La sospecha o la acusación de intolerancia a quienes tienen convicciones firmes es típica de la «dictadura del relativismo». Es una manifestación de la crisis profunda de gran parte de la cultura occidental: la crisis de la razón, que reniega de su propia esencia, conocer la verdad y el sentido de la existencia.

No creo que sea posible caminar por la vida con la Razón, con «R» mayúscula, sino que hay que llevar consigo muchas razones con minúscula para intercambiar con los demás.

Some of the rest of the world does cheat on those obligations. But the solution isn't for the global trading leader to drop its standards in response. It's a tough spot to be in. But you're there for a reason. It's like Superman getting into a bar fight. Why?

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force – for the same reason – cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].

Abraham Lincoln said, "I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man." Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, "It finds me." "If you want encouragement," John Bunyan wrote, "entertain the promises.

Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

People always say things happen for a reason, until they disagree with the reason it happened.

Man is naturally a reasoning animal, and is only then truly a man when his passions are tempered and his conduct regulated by reason. The function of reason is the recognition and the realization of truth; truth recognised in speculation is science; truth realized in action is a moral life and a well-ordered society.