Quotes About Reason

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.

Life without cause is a life without effect.

Voli se zato sto se voli. Ne postoji razlog zbog kojeg se voli.

God will help us - said the holy man. - But first let us understand the reason for these pains. I suggest Your Majesty confesses now, for confession makes men face up to their problems, and liberates much guilt.

This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it.

Opting for coziness, having that as your prime reason for existing, becomes a continual obstacle to taking a leap and doing something new, doing something unusual, like going as a stranger into a strange land.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Formal art is essentially rational.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.