Quotes About Reason

CHAPTER 15: RAIN OF STEEL CHAPTER 16: SCHWERPUNKT PART 4: BLOOD OATHS CHAPTER 17: STATE OF SIEGE CHAPTER 18: SCORPION STARE CHAPTER 19: ASYLUM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —John Harington (16th century)

Objectification of the world gives a sense of power, and control, which is intensified by every victory of instrumental reason. And

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith. That due process is better than mob rule.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

If I can, for whatever reason, inspire and motivate people, that's a good thing.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

He was twenty eight years old now, and wise enough to know that there are sometimes reasons of which the reason knows nothing, and that the fictional pattern of one's life, formed and set by years of living, is not to be discarded quite as easily as one may throw away a battered hat or worn-out shoe.

The trick was to get his reason and his emotions pulling together in double harness, instead of letting them fly off in opposite directions, tearing him apart between them.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

and their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.

Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.

Don't think about it too hard. If your heart longs to be here…then your heart is here. If your heart is here…that is reason enough.

It is not a story of brilliant achievement, heroic deeds, or noble sacrifice. It is a story of blind stumbling and chance discovery, of groping in the dark and refusing to admit the light. It is a story replete with obscurantism and prejudice, of sound judgement often eclipsed by loyalty to tradition, and of reason long held subservient to custom. In short, it is a human story

logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married.

Logic only gives man what he needs," he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants.

Logic only gives a man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants.

Ma koliko bili stari, uvek o?ekujemo neki obrt, jer smo daleko od zdravog razuma. Svi ti odlu?uju?i obrti desili su se pre više decenija, samo ih tada nismo opazilikao takve, kao odlu?uju?e obrte.

And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.

Rage has limited uses and serious flaws. It cuts off reason and displaces constructive action with mindless theater. Besides, absorbing the lies, untruths, both transparent and nuanced, of governments, their hypocrisy so polished it does not even care if it is revealed, can lead to a wearied and raveled mind.