Quotes About Reason

L'art de persuader consiste autant en celui d'agréer qu'en celui de convaincre, tant les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.

Cea mai puternic? surs? de erori este r?zboiul între simÈ›uri È™i raÈ›iune.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

I don't know the reason, but the reminder of what life is comes so timely at the moment of taking leave of it and on the threshold of its return.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Richard Chaston (1620–95). Chaston wrote that men and fairies both contain within them a faculty of reason and a faculty of magic. In men reason is strong and magic is weak. With fairies it is the other way round: magic comes very naturally to them, but by human standards they are barely sane. 3

We lapsed into silence again. There seemed nothing more to say. I was shocked by his description of 16's wickedness. To be opposed to Reason itself!

la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.

I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.

There is no reason for the sudden terror, the feeling of condemnation, except that circumstances all mirror the inner doubt, the inner fear.

The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

A curse is a power Not subject to reason Each curse has its course Its own way of expiation Follow follow

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it's not on our side," Seth said. "Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. People who don't have them can't possibly understand.

Tú eres la razón de mi existencia -dijo dulcemente-, el motivo de que yo haya nacido.

Imagination without reason is mere fancy, but reason without imagination is sterile.

Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.

Nunca será posible llegar solo mediante la razón pura a alguna verdad absoluta».5

Atheism is not a faith position because it is belief in nothing beyond that which is supported by evidence and argument. Religious belief is a faith position because it goes beyond what there is evidence or argument for. That is why faith requires something 'special' that ordinary belief does not have.

Se supone que solo te quedarías con nosotros por tu propio bien, por razones egoístas. Me dijiste que tenías una. -Y la tengo. -¿Y cuál es? -Tú eres mi razón egoísta.