Quotes About Reason

There are no coincidences in this world, Drustan, his father had said. You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern.

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

Mum Paula says that she has two very different boys. 'I could put it like this: Rami stands for reason and Kimi for action. When it's Kimi, if there's the smallest gap, he'll slip past. Rami is more of a gentleman, so that if someone catches up with him, he might think, Go on, pass. If Kimi sees the tiniest chink, he'll exploit it.

And is this not the very reason for the establishment of the State? If there were cause and reason for confidence among individuals, the State would never have come into existence. The sacred and essential foundation for the State is our mutual and well-founded suspicion of each other. Anyone questioning this foundation throws suspicion upon the State.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

Great men may make great mistakes; and as the book tries to show, some of the greatest leaders of the past supported the perennial attack on freedom and reason.

I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.

The prophetic element in Marx's creed was dominant in the minds of his followers. It swept everything else aside, banishing the power of cool and critical judgement and destroying the belief that by the use of reason we may change the world. All that remained of Marx's teaching was the oracular philosophy of Hegel, which in its Marxist trappings threatens to paralyse the struggle for the open society.

The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about not a dispassionate rule of reason, but the rule of the strong man. A violent revolution which tries to attempt more than the destruction of tyranny is at least as likely to bring about another tyranny as it is likely to achieve its real aims.

Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.

las mujeres hemos sido protagonistas indiscutibles de la pérdida de la razón. Pero la locura ha estado siempre envuelta en la vergüenza.

None on the Court be well disposed to the hearing of reason,I'm afraid. They are gripped with fear for their own reputations.

Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art, any more than anything essentially reasonable has ever arisen out of pure reason. There must always be a rich moral soil for any great aesthetic growth.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Code writers and engineers often maintain the fiction that their own psychology has little bearing on their work. Reason rules.

OLD BRANDY came to mean a taste that was eccentric, esoteric, but just within the bounds of reason.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.