Quotes About Reason

Tan absurdo hablar porque sí, oírse hablar y saber que nunca se tiene demasiada razón. Ésa es otra, quizá la peor de nuestras cobardías. Los que valemos algo aquí no estamos ya seguros de nada. Hay que ser un animal para tener convicciones.

La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea

Îmi dadusem seama inca de pe atunci ca semnul meu este cautarea, emblema celor care o pornesc noaptea fara vreun tel anume, ratiunea distrugatorilor de busole.

Reason is only good to mummify reality in moments of calm or analyze its future storms, never to resolve a crisis of the moment

Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da iza?e iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji ne?e biti onaj razum ?iji je nedostatak ludilo.

We are, in many ways, the bastard children of Reason and Mysticism. Both have been banging away like libertines during the last 200 years, and we are, in many ways, their offspring. Without Reason, we would simply be mad savants, dancing to an aimless tune. Without Mysticism, we would be poseurs, desperately trying to be rebellious without the wisdom to pull it off. Magick, you see, is the ultimate rebellion, and we are its best chance for the future.

There is a close relationship between faith and reason, for one cannot function without the other. Reason builds its arguments on first principles which cannot be proven, but are accepted by faith. For the truly wise, faith is the first principle, the starting point, on which reason is to build.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

If we don't want intrusive government, then we need to care for the least among us so that they are not exploited as a reason by the government for bigger government.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

People knew Trump had strange relationships with the Russians even before he was elected. Consequently, there is every reason to investigate whether Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

Successful investing is all about common sense.

Well in terms of our companies, we are very involved in the innovation space. We are not afraid as an investor, we're not afraid of dilution, if we, if we think they're doing it for the right reason.

We take the traditional value investor's process and just flip it around a little bit. The traditional value investor asks 'Is this cheap?' and then 'Why is it cheap?' We start by identifying a reason something might be mispriced, and then if we find a reason why something is likely mispriced, then we make a determination whether it's cheap.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

Religion is an irrational construct.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.

The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions - that will come if I am playing consistently well for Everton.