Quotes About Reason

But I had been a stranger to myself turned to stone for no reason I could name.

Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.

Cite um herói que tenha sido feliz. Não conseguiria. — Não, não conseguiria. — Sei disso. Os deuses não permitem que sejamos famosos e felizes. Vou lhe contar um segredo. — Conte-me. — Eu serei o primeiro. Jure. — Por que eu devo jurar? — Porque você é a razão.

Nunca te dejan ser famoso y feliz. Voy a contarte un secreto. - Dime - Yo voy a ser el primero. Júralo. - ¿Por qué yo? - Porque tu eres la razón.

Name one hero who was happy...You can't.' He was sitting up now, leaning forward. 'I can't.' 'I know. They never let you be famous and happy.' He lifted an eybrow. 'I'll tell you a secret.' 'Tell me.' I loved it when he was like this. 'I'm going to be the first.' He took my palm and held it to his. 'Swear it.' 'Why me?' 'Because you're the reason. Swear it.

Name one hero who was happy you can't, I can't, I know. They never let you be famous AND happy. Ill tell you a secret Tell me Im going to be the first.. Swear it why me because your the reason.. swear it I swear it

We don't kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air and flew.

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.

The tepid 'there must be a reason for it' notion sometimes floated by religious or quasi-religious acquaintances or bystanders, is, to her, another form of violence. She has not time for it. She is too busy asking, in this changed form, what makes a livable life, and how she can live it.

Repeated sin destroys the understanding And he whose reason is impaired repeats His sins. The constant practising of virtue Strengthens the mental faculties, and he Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right.

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

You can not fix STUPID!

Dialectic, she says, describes the rational discussion between those who hold conflicting positions, to find resolution and deduce the truth through the disciplines of logic and reason. Rhetoric, meanwhile, is the art of persuasion. It makes use of invention, arrangement, delivery and style. Therefore, can the delivery and style of rhetoric take precedence over truth?

He lifted his head and let it thud several times to the floor. Maybe that would send Reason whimpering back into its cave.

The earth and the water next mingled, becoming inseparable, and the Spiritual Word which is called Reason moved upon their surface, causing endless turmoil.

But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself. - Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

there seems to be no good reason to doubt that Alfred could have done at least some translating,

Alfred's additional reason for assembling his A-list of intellectuals was to assist him in producing books

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.