Quotes About 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.

A metà strada tra la fede e la critica c'è sempre l'ostello della ragione. La ragione è la fede in ciò che si può comprendere senza fede; ma è anche essa stessa una fede, perchè comprendere implica presupporre che esista qualcosa di comprensibile.

Men of action are the involuntary slaves of the men of reason. The worth of things depends on their interpretation. Certain men make things which other men invest with meaning, bringing them to life. To narrate is to create, while to live is merely to be lived.

Pasar de los fantasmas de la fe a los espectros de la razón es solamente cambiar de celda.

Ya sabes lo que es un «motivo» en el sentido que recibe la palabra en este contexto: es la razón que tienes o al menos crees tener para hacer algo

Philosophy is not the revelation made by the all-knowing to the ignorant, but the dialogue between equals who become accomplices in their mutual submission to the force of reason and not to the reason of force.

This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.

Thomas had inherited his father's reason without his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for all practical action was to wait and see what developed.

The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason, every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time-sequence for a reason. He demonstrates something that cannot possibly be demonstrated any other way than with a whole novel.

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.

I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason to bullying... it's not even the bully's fault, which is why it's such a difficult thing to combat.

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.

Malayali audiences are well aware of Shamna as a dancer and that may be a reason why I was constantly being approached by filmmakers to do song sequences alone.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.

For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we don't wholesale.