Quotes About Reason

However, there are ways of trying to strangle ideas that do not involve straightforward attempts at censorship or intimidation. The suggestion that there is something sinister, even un-American, about intense devotion to ideas, reason, logic, evidence, and precise language is one of them.

If enough money is involved, and enough people believe that two plus two equals five, the media will report the story with a straight face, always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that "mathematicians, however, say that two plus two still equals four." With a perverted objectivity that gives credence to nonsense, some mainstream news outlets have done more to undermine logic and reason than rapture ready.com could ever do.

It was really true what they said: you don't look for something out of the ordinary unless you have reason to.

In that slippery, sliding moment, his disappointment begins to heal. If the bus driver has appeared at this moment, this very day, then there is a reason. All he needs to discover is why. He'll take his time. He'll watch. Surely the reason will be revealed. Reasons usually do.

For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. Those people are not the ones who wish they could fold back time and make different choices. They don't lie awake at night and whisper, If only . . .

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. Those people are not the once who wish they could fold back time and make different choice. They don't lie awake at night and whisper , If only.....

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.

how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?

It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they both had their jeans on, because this was definitely one of those adrenaline-fuelled moments of passion with a total loss of inhibition, where need and desire trumped all reason.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. . . ." — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1689

No mutt is good. All are meant to damage you. Some take your life, like the monkeys. Others your reason, like the tracker jackers. However, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. The sight of the wolf mutts with the dead tributes' eyes. The sound of the jabberjays replicating Prim's tortured screams. The smell of Snow's

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

I like to have a reason to change my hair. I'm not very good at saying, 'I think I'm going to do something else with my hair now.' I like a character to lead it that way.

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

Britannia High' is not set in a high school where people burst into song and dance for no reason. It's a performing arts school, so there is a legitimate reason for them to sing and dance.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it's sold out.