Quotes About Reason

For, seen from the outside, from a being who is alien to it, reason is simply a vast tautology.

Por supuesto, la razón validará a la razón como principio rector del universo. ¿Qué otra cosa iba a hacer? ¿Destronarse a sí misma?

Sabe bien que Dmitri se burla de él a sus espaldas. Dice que es "el hombre de razón", cuyas pasiones están siempre bajo control. Una vez Dmitri preguntó:"¿Qué mundo sería este si todos aceptáramos el imperio de la razón?". Y respondió: "Un mundo muy, muy aburrido". A él le gustaría replicar: "Tal vez sea aburrido, pero mejor que un mundo sometido al imperio de las pasiones".

la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.

en cuanto empiece a comprender que el universo, no solo en la esfera de los números, sino en todo, está gobernado por leyes, y que nada ocurre por azar, se calmará y entrará en razón.

she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis.

Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe's life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can't get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

There was a reason for rituals. When you were lost in your own life, they provided a false structure, like paper walls for your house of cards, the illusion that things were predictable and safe sometimes the only thing that got you through.

Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.

If you are going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.

The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can't get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

So you're the reason Qhuinn was in such a bad mood tonight. It's got nothing to do with me. Qhuinn is usually in a bad mood. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just dont fit in square holes.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason

To man, alone among the animals, has been given the awful privilege of reason. Man, with his brain, can penetrate the intoxicating show of things and look upon the universe brazen with indifference toward him and his dreams.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.