Quotes About Reason

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Mathematics is human reason itself in a form everyone can recognise. Why should poetry, reason and religion not be higher forms of Mathematics? All that is needed is a grammar of their common language.

I was born in a time when most young people had lost their belief in God for much the same reason that their elders had kept theirs - without knowing why.

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.

The Enlightenment may be summoned up in two words: criticism and power.

Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Not all the truths of faith can be proved by reason, but all arguments against the truths of faith can be disproved by reason.