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Quotes About Reason

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
Our biggest thing is, any player who's protesting will tell you that the only reason we use the anthem is because it's a platform like no other. We use it to draw attention to other issues. We've heard from many people, 'Use a different venue. Use a different platform.' Quite frankly, this is the most effective one.
~ Malcolm Jenkins
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: this morning at eight-fifteen, just as I was leaving the Hotel Printania to go to the library, I wanted to and could not pick up a paper lying on the ground. This is all and it is not even an event. Yes—but, to tell the whole truth, I was deeply impressed by it: I felt I was no longer free.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
there is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.
~ Jed McKenna
Of course, for some bizarre reason, we don't have a National Registry of Who Your Friends Are. One would assume that this administration would have thought of that, and rammed it through Congress. It would certainly make my work easier now.
~ Jeff Lindsay
said without looking up. 'That's no reason not to say goodbye
~ Jeffrey Archer
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The striatum, and especially the caudate, can thus be thought of as a neuronal mosaic of reason and passion.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.
~ Jenna Black
Wenn Vernunft wirklich feurige Materie wäre, wie von Diogenes als Erstem angenommen wurde, so sähe man es doch am besten daran, wie über die Jahrhunderte hinweg der eine Nachdenkende die Gedanken eines anderen aufnimmt und versucht, ihnen das Eigene hinzuzufügen und sie so am Leben zu halten.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.
~ Jerry Spinelli
If every event is part of the fabric of the conspiracy, then everything must have a reason, a meaning.
~ Jess Walter
She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history.
~ Jessica Shattuck
She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history. Since
~ Jessica Shattuck
Like certain faces among the people I see on the street every day, certain words, for some reason, stand out, and leave an impression on me. Others remain in the background, negligible. After
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
~ Noah Baumbach
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
~ Steven Pressfield
The source of work? Man's mind...man's reasoning mind.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately, And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!
~ Somya Kedia
I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.
~ Jason Biggs
I feel like I studied anthropology in college for a reason.
~ Zal Batmanglij
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
~ Alfred Nobel