Quotes About Reason

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

while God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

The reason behind everything always has to be something else entirely.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

perchè appena uno trova una buona ragione per farle, le cose perdono il loro fascino.

Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

This was the substance of every moment, she realized: the body - never certain if the next lungful would be its last - hovering for a tiny time between cessation and continuance. And in that space out of time, between a breath expelled and another drawn, the miraculous was easy, because neither flesh nor reason has laid their edicts there.

You need your thumbs. They are one reason cats can't make omelettes.

I changed Lessing's35 words – Anyone who does not lose his reason over certain things, has no reason – into: Anyone whose heart remains calm today, has no heart.

I think it was Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose." An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Logos is deeper than logic.

Hay cosas que pueden hacerte perder la razón, a no ser que no tengas ninguna razón que perder».

Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

Creo que fue Lessing quien afirmó: «Hay cosas que pueden hacerte perder la razón, a no ser que no tengas ninguna razón que perder». En una situación anormal, una reacción anormal constituye una conducta normal.

a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy

But happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy'. Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness, but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

Fue Lessing quien dijo en una ocasión: Hay cosas que deben haceros perder la razón, o entonces es que no tenéis ninguna razón que perder. Ante una situación anormal, la reacción anormal constituye una conducta normal.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to be happy. But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy. [...] If you want anyone to laugh you have to provide him with a reason, e.g., you have to tell him a joke.

It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people.

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the assault of fever or the oncome of melancholia, are neglected. Nor is the reason far to seek. To look these things squarely in the face would need the courage of a lion tamer; a robust philosophy; a reason rooted in the bowels of the earth.