Quotes About Reason

Stark raving sane.

You don't logic, man. You sheer don't logic.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.

You know what the biggest lie in the world is?' 'Tell me.' 'That everything happens for a reason. It's not true. Some things are totally without reason. Some things – the things that hurt the most – are totally meaningless. Some things make no sense and will never make sense.' I

faith presupposes reason and perfects it, and reason, enlightened by faith, finds the strength to rise to knowledge of God and spiritual realities'.15 For Ratzinger, faith and reason, theology and philosophy, are symbiotically, and not extrinsic-ally, related. Faith without reason ends in fideism, but reason without faith ends in nihilism.

Be rational' is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position.

Les cloches sonnent sans raison et nous aussi

Dada n'a aucune prétention comme la vie devrait être. Peut-être me comprendrez-vous mieux quand je vous dirai que dada est un microbe vierge qui s'introduit avec l'insistance de l'air dans tous les espaces que la raison n'a pu combler de mots ou de conventions.

He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

Second, and even more important, meetings are ineffective. The most justifiable reason to loathe meetings is that they don't contribute to the success of our organizations.

But it appears to me that for our patient truth is what he can persuade others to believe: yet at the same time he is a man of some parts, and I suspect that were you to attack him through his reason, were you to persuade him to abandon this self-defeating practice, with its anxiety, its probability of detection, and to seek only a more legitimate approval, then we should have no need for belladonna or any other anhidrotic.

Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.

L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don't actually hate you. They just need something to chase.

I do not love thee, Dr Fell, the reason why I cannot tell.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

I'm going away, he said. And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because.... Don't say anything, Fatima interrupted. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...