Quotes About Reason

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and there are so many incredible, iconic history stories that have not been told that we don't need to go too deep in the well yet.

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.

it all seems more reasonable and possible until you put it figuratively, until the metaphorical end, which is always the muzzle if you come down to it, blasts you in the face.

Ah, this is fine, he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words WHY NOT? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is. ' 'Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality,' Mili remarked. 'That will happen only when you bring back Rhyme and Reason,' said Alec...

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. When we emerge, perhaps we will realize that we have been dreaming with our eyes open, and that the dreams of reason are intolerable. And then, perhaps, we will begin to dream once more with our eyes closed.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-wake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. When we emerge, perhaps we will realize that we have been dreaming with our eyes open, and that the dreams of reason are intolerable. And then, perhaps, we will begin to dream once more with our eyes closed.

El lenguaje siempre es una pluralidad, y esa te hace pensar a veces que el lenguaje es la expresión más perfecta de la razón y a la vez es la expresión más imperfecta de la razón, ya que toda palabra posee una significación que puede ser anulada por otra palabra. Lo que me propuse es ver cómo el lenguaje desemboca del silencio, de ese silencio significativo.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

I'll talk to her, but she's too old—or too young—to listen to reason.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason, Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. You're forgetting the Little Prince, Polly reminded him. Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act, snapped Sir Godfrey.

is IN! But is thinking on the way out? Is man's reason becoming an endangered species?

The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all. Everybody dont have to have a reason to be someplace. That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

Are you no afraid of God? I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. You