Quotes About Reason

Everyone," she said, "thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions." She glanced aside at me. "Love is a fire, my Knight. Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate. Reason, young wizard, is the opposite of hate, not love.

Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way.

Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place—so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.

telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?

I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

I'll have my cell phone on me. Try to call me before things start exploding." "Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual cooperation." Thomas eyed me. I tried to look wounded. "It could happen.

In my experience, ghouls hadn't done much that wasn't disgusting. There was no reason to expect them to die cleanly, either.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.

I've been a Mets fan all my life." Nearly everybody was saying it by mid-June. And nearly everybody had a good reason for saying it. You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life.

it is a network kept alive by people whose instincts tell them that if they do not keep moving at night on the desert they will lose all reason.

Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

medications, but everything was under control." "Did Clayton give a reason why he wanted to quit working?

La razón es el perfecto equilibrio de todas las facultades; fuera de ella, todo es insania, insania y nada más que insania.

A razão é o perfeito equilíbrio de todas as faculdades; fora daí insânia, insânia e só insânia.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.