Quotes About Reason

Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the cabin against the window background of such frantic natural scenery), the will of man and the lunacy of God.

The will of God or the lunacy of man—it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things.

You know it's you that give's me a reason to see tomorrow, because I look forward to creating something for you. Thank You from the bottom of my heart.....Cowboy

Sometimes our feelings don't leave room for us to realize that we might be a certain way for a reason.

Can you imagine. Not only can you reason and compromise, you know what you're going to do next!

Can you imagine. Not only can you reason and compromise. You know what you're going to do next!

It's not true that I escaped from reality. There is always some reason in my madness.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.

But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in them no more.

When people make mistakes, there's usually a reason for it. These pork chops are something else." She knew at that moment that Hershel Pine was probably the best human being she'd ever known.

For good or bad, my preoccupation with death and the past had defined much of my life, and a long time ago I had made my separate peace with the world and abandoned any claim on reason or normalcy or the golden mean. Waylon Jennings said it many years ago: I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

Them fellers was dangerous, but for the simple reason they had a cause. Ain't no worse thing in the world than fronting up against one of those, for a man with a cause, right or wrong, has got plenty to prove, and will make you suck sorrow if you get in the way of 'em wrongly.

If you know the why, you can figure out the who.

said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason," I said. "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

might have had something to do with this emergency

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.