Quotes About Reason

Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

incident. "Nothing new." I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.

I think it is a burden... that we constantly realise that there isn't that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful.

Right reason is stronger than force.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

I will always be a voice of reason for our community, our state and our nation.

If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.