Quotes About Reason

Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason.

words from a Davison Jeffers poem taped up on the refrigerator door. Here they are: There is no reason for amazement; surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

What is born at midnight, in the eeriest hours of God's presence, can beget our entire reason to be.

Just because I'm pointing out the flaws in your logic is no reason to start accusing me of things. There is no shame in being afraid.

For this reason Archimedes considered that this method merely indicated, but did not prove, that the result is correct.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason's having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it

The bottom line is that there is really only one good reason to get a restraining order in a case of wife abuse: the woman believes the man will honor it and leave her alone.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Mia ¿No lo entiendes? La música es el vacío y tú eres la razón de eso

sleeping late, like unconsciousness, happened for a reason. Because your body knew you couldn't handle being awake.

They say that things happen for a reason, but I don't know that I buy that. I don't know that I'll ever see a reason for what happened to Kat, Denny, and Teddy that day.

Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Perhaps she'd done so to spite him, he thought. He'd tried to kill her, after all. And a worse attempt I've never seen. Disgraceful! His jaw locked in irritation. Now is not the time to think of her. When is a good time? Later. He could almost hear Death clapping happily in his mind, and he didn't think it was because the demon was eager to take Anya's soul. He didn't understand why the demon cared to see her, but he had no time to reason it out. The

history has shown that the removal of all restraints of reason and morality leads not to liberation but to fascism.

Anticipating the collapse of secular reason, Hamann thus brings us to a decidedly postmodern crossroads, at which point one can take the road of faith, which, as an inspired tradition attests, leads to ever greater enlightenment; or one can take the road of postmodern unbelief, which leads to nihilism. Simply put, the alternative is one between Hamann and postmodernity. 15

Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: "Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this auspicious sign? Now that the Buddha, the World-Honored One, has entered into concentration, whom can I ask about such inconceivable and unprecedented wonders? And who will be able to answer?

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

But ultimately there was an even better reason why Irene headed for the door. It was simple curiosity.

Compelling reason to buy • Whole product • Partners and allies • Distribution • Pricing • Competition • Positioning • Next target customer

We do not have, nor are we willing to adopt, any discipline that would ever require us to stop pursuing any sale at any time for any reason. We are, in other words, not a market- driven company; we are a sales-driven company.