Quotes About Reasons

We all still show too little respect for nature, which in Leonardo's deep words recalling Hamlet's speech is full of infinite reasons which never appeared in experience. Every one of us human beings corresponds to one of the infinite experiments in which these reasons of nature force themselves into experience.

A glorious victory has a funny way of erasing memories of the reasons why a victory was needed in the first place.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

I could easily understand why Lambert was bored with this peace which gave us back our lives without giving us back our reasons for living.

C'est dans la connaissance des conditions authentiques de notre vie qu'il nous faut puiser la force de vivre et des raisons d'agir

We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

When passion dies, reasons dwindle

The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.

the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.

tales in search of an excuse for their telling.

Her reasons were as valid now as they had been then, but it didn't stop her from blaming herself

It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration.

We love from little motives, not for large reasons.

Fanaticism is the death of conversation. We do not gossip with a candidate for martyrdom. What are we to say to someone who refuses to penetrate our reasons and who, the moment we do not bow to his, would rather die than yield? Give us dilettantes and sophists, who at least espouse all reasons...

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

For as soon as any body of doctrine becomes the watchword of a party or a sect, it is certain to be used with the most confident assurance by multitudes who have the most imperfect apprehension of the true grounds of the opinions they are expressing. In default of reasons they quote authorities.

Whereas reasons may, and usually do, figure among the proximate causes of belief ... it is always possible to ... penetrate but a short way down, and they are found no more.

You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have

The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, "The reason people get stuck is almost always an emotional reason…and they can get stuck for years…but the consequences are financial." And similarly, Kiplinger's reported, "Financial planners are increasingly finding themselves playing the role of psychologist as well as financial counselor.

When the snow falls with that supernatural slowness it has, it seems that the reasons for dying are more subtle than the reasons for living. But perhaps these latter are more numerous.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.