Quotes About Reason

pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves. It is not enough only to study and depict and describe. One must sometimes . . . leap.

Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason—for insurance against later regret.

His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness.

But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves.

His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.

Lewes was waiting, always Lewes, making profound and idiotic comments on everything, and wanting to sit up half the night and reason. Reason! He was sick of reason. He wanted some one he could be romantic with, and sentimental with, and poetic, and—yes, religious with, if he felt like it, without having to feel ashamed.

You see, I tell myself, here is the reason to stay clean: because life is so ridiculous, and if you're sober, it's funny; if you're high, it's just depressing. Or maybe it's the opposite. But I hope not.

If you ask me, it's all these skinny models that make girls anorexic, she went on, to Auntie Barbara. I can't think why they don't use real girls with a few curves. Stands to reason, Jenny. Auntie B. was as pinkly flushed as Mum. All the designers are gay—they don't want bosoms in their clothes, or bottoms, either. Not proper, girls' bottoms.

You are looking at a murdered man, Father Prior. A man's hand fitted that arrow, a man's hand drew the bow, and for a man's reason. There must have been others who had a grudge against Rhisiart, others whose plans he was obstructing, besides Saint Winifred. Why blame this killing on her?

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles, And he was comforted and entertained, and fell asleep again readily, feeling that all was well with a world he had always know to be peculiar and perverse.

Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

If matters get mixed up then scrutinize the cause and you will know what the effects will be.

the proliferation of schemas of racial classification was one reason for the demise of 'scientific racism'.

Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.

Que todo tiene su orden, su razón y su porqué. Que no es Pachacamac ni es Contiki Viracocha Pachayachachig, sino son los mismos hombres los que alteran todo y viven en continua lucha con la pacha mama.

Question 1: What is the chief end of man? This most basic question confronts each of us. Why am I here? What is the reason for my existence? What is the purpose of my life? The catechism on the basis of 1 Corinthians 10:31 and Psalm 73:25 provides the familiar answer. "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.