Reason quotes

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.