Quotes About Reason

I did not play for Manchester City and I had no prospects to play, so there was no reason to stay.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn't married and trying to get out of it—though I never felt anything of the kind myself—but to get rid of one wife and take up with another immediately, is beyond all reason.

From that moment, events rushed on with breath-taking speed. I spent the two and a half months until my arrest in tormented conflict between reason and the kind of foreboding which Lermontov called "prophetic anguish.

mad with common sense

No... no... We never forgive those we can understand... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all...

Bir an ona a??km???m gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düÅŸünen, kurallar? olan biriyim, bu da arzular?m? frenlememi saÄŸlar.

Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.

CAUSE AND EFFECT The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine? Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.

O meu sentimento é cinza Da minha imaginação, E eu deixo cair a cinza No cinzeiro da Razão.

I am the nothingness around which this movement spins, the only reason it spins, not that the center exists except in the fact that all circles have a center. I, really I, am the well without walls, but with the sliminess of its walls, the center of everything with the nothingness around it.

on the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells.

Nací en un tiempo en el que la mayoría de los jóvenes habían perdido la creencia en Dios, por la misma razón por la que sus mayores la habían tenido —sin saber por qué—

I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why.

There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia.

Reason is the worst type of dream since it carries me into the dream of the regularity of life which does not exist, that is to say, it is doubly nothing.' 'But what does that mean?' Putting my hand on the other's shoulder and holding him in my arms, 'Aïe, my son, what does anything mean?

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.